Worried about the rising insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the House of Representatives on Wednesday, February 7, resolved to invite the National Security Adviser (NSA) and heads of all security agencies in the country for an emergency security briefing and strategy.
The House, however, did not give any specific date for the security Chiefs to appear before it.
The House also asked the minister of the Federal Capital Territory to install security cameras and other security gadgets around the FCT and equip security personnel with modern security equipment to combat the rising and frightening insecurity within the Territory and its environs, including the use of drones.
Adopting a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Dominic Okafor (APGA, Anambra), the House asked heads of all security agencies to collaborate among themselves, train and set up special units within their formations to track and clamp down on the Criminal elements within and around the Territory.
In addition, the House asked the Security Agencies to immediately commence the use of the registered National Identification Numbers (NIN) in their technology to trace and curb insecurity across the Country.
Moving his motion, Okafor reminded his colleagues that the Federal Capital Territory remains the seat of the federal government from where national policies are formulated, headquarters of federal government agencies are domiciled, International edifices are located, the majority of foreigners and visitors are residents, etc.
He disclosed that the Nasarawa state government has announced plans to install security cameras across their state to curb the distressing security challenges in the state which ought to be replicated in Abuja being the Centre of the Nation and should be the safest place in the country.
He lamented that the level of insecurity raving the Centre of Unity in recent times, is, to say the least, very disappointing and unbefitting of a Federal Capital City where there are escalating cases of “one chance “, armed robberies, banditry and rampant kidnappings and killings.
He said further that the last administration, through the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, compulsorily registered and linked National Identification Numbers (NIN) with Telephone Numbers of Nigerians and further linked the same with various bank accounts with the main purpose of curbing the rising spate of insecurity in the Country.
He said further that since the compulsory registration and linking of the National Identification Numbers (NIN) by the Federal Government, there has never been a time it was deployed to tackle or address the pressing and scary state of insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory or the Nation at large.
Okafor also said that since criminal elements in and around the Federal Capital Territory are speedily evolving from the norm to advanced techniques of criminality, the security agencies of government ought to urgently move to digitalize their operations to return the Federal Capital Territory to its safest haven in the Country with the use of Drones, Closed- Circuit Television (CCTV) and other modern sophisticated security gadgets.
He said restructuring the Nation economically and politically as is obtainable in most Western Economies is the next most appropriate step the Federal Government of Nigeria should go in a bit to address the teething economic, political, and security concerns of Nigerians.
(The Nation)