The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said for the country to get things right with the security challenges in Nigeria, digitalization of intelligence gathering and monitoring was the best approach.
He emphasised that the world had gone past the manual process of operation as it is now in Nigeria.
Speaking during the IT Audit presentation on the Ministry of Interior and its Agencies to the Minister by Mr. Folusho Philips, Chairman of Philips Consult, Aregbesola pledged that he would make sure his ministry put the necessary efforts and tools in place to ensure maximum capacity building for digitalization in the ministry and the agencies under his watch.
He said: “What distinguished the individual is how he can challenge and overcome situations.”
He advised that Nigeria leaders should put in all their best to overcome the security challenges facing the country through digitization of the nation’s security architecture.
Also speaking during the occasion, the permanent secretary in the ministry, said that significant efforts have already commenced to fully digitalize operations in the ministry.
He stated that the Electronic Data Management System which would ensure digitalization of file records and implementation of the Human Resource Module of the IPPIS are set to take off in the ministry.
He however emphasised the need for more funding to be appropriated to further strengthen the ministry’s Information Technology backbone.
The presentation identified that the ministry and it agencies are behind in the digital world’s standard and needed to braze up in the quest to curb insecurity.
Present during the presentation were the permanent secretary, directors in the ministry, representatives of the security agencies, among others.
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