The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi has disclosed that efforts are ongoing to install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras on all major highways across the country to curb the rising cases of kidnapping.
Channelstv reports that Dingyadi who disclosed this in an interview on the station’s Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily said President Muhammadu Buhari has given the approval for the project and the Federal Government has entered into an agreement with NPS Technology Company to re-fix the abandoned CCTV project.
“We are moving forward, like you are aware, the 470million CCTV project that has been abandoned. Mr President has now given us the go-ahead to resuscitate the project and we have already entered into a concession agreement with NPS technologies. They are there trying to re-fix the entire system to resuscitate it.”
He added that they are aware of the challenges involved in achieving the projects and they are tackling them headlong
“That is what we are doing now, we are facing the challenges, we are trying to resuscitate it. This company is already going into action to ensure that they purchase the needed equipment”.
He added that the project will be accomplished based on public and private partnerships.