Zamfara State will utilise the three digital emergency call centres provided by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to end banditry activities in the State.
Governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle expressed determination of his administration when he visited the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ali Isa Pantami at his office in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to Director-General, Media Public Enlightenment and Communications, Mal Yusuf Idris Gusau, that government is ready to fully utilise the digital emergency call centres to ensure that the purposes for which they were established were achieved.
“Technology plays a very vital role in securing societies globally, stressing that his administration had resolved to utilise all the centres constructed in the state in order to curb banditry activities and other criminality in the state.”
“With proper utilization of the new system, the country will return to its old glory of peaceful coexistence where every citizen will live peacefully with one another irrespective of tribe or region,” Matawalle added.
He noted that the centres would in addition create job opportunities for the teeming youth ICT applicants and designers in the state.
Responding, the Minister Communications and Digital Economy, Doctor Ali Isa Pantami said all the centres provided in Zamfara State which would soon go into full operation, are specially for security and employment purposes.
He commended the proactive posture of Governor Matawalle in tackling insecurity and government’s development drive of moving Zamfara State forward.
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