The Minister of Police affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi said there are plans to plant closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras on major highways in order to monitor and control insecurity in the country.
Dingyadi mentioned this while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday.
According to him, the federal government entered a concession agreement with NPS technology company to resuscitate the abandoned CCTV project in an effort to address the security challenges in the country.
“We are moving forward like you are aware that N470 billion CCTV project that has been abandoned, Mr. President has now given the go-ahead to resuscitate the project and we have entered a concession agreement with NPS technologies.
“They are trying to refix the entire system to resuscitate it, empower it and to ensure that they make the basis to generate revenue, that will pay this loan and give some revenue into the government coffers, so by the time the system is put in place, we would have a lot of technology to manage some of these crises and particularly issue of kidnapping.”
“The cameras are going to be on the major highways in all the city centres in all the states of the federation, it is everywhere in this country.
“We’re trying to resuscitate it, this company is already going into action to ensure that they purchase the needed equipment that have been dilapidated or destroyed,” he said.
Insecurity has seen an unanticipated surge in the past few years with each part of the country battling with one life threatening crisis or the other.
Data by the Nigeria Security Tracker showed that nearly 80,000 persons have lost their lives to the spates of attacks that occurred between 2011-2020.
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