The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it would install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on major highways across the country as part of effort to address insecurity in the country.
Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, stated this during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme.
Muhammad said President Muhammadu Buhari had revived the abandoned CCTV project in order to address the security challenges in the country.
Dingyadi said the federal government had also entered a concession agreement with NPS technology company to refix the abandoned CCTV project.
He said part of the modalities put in place for the project was how to recoup money spent on it through revenue generation.
According to him: “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.”
In response to particular places where the CCTV cameras would be placed, the police affairs minister said: “It is 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.”
Dingyadi said the company in charge of the CCTV project was already purchasing the needed equipment for the project.
According to him: “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 the police would partner any individual with ideas that could help in intelligence gathering.
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