The Federal government has resuscitated former President Goodluck Jonathan’s $470million Closed-Circuit Television, CCTV, project just as it said that it will install CCTVs on all major High ways in Nigeria.
According to the Minister of Police Affairs the CCTV camera will enable the police and all other security agencies do better surveillance job in on the road.
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The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi speaking Channels Tv morning programme Sunrise Saily also said that the CCTV when installed on major highways across Nigeria should curb the rising cases of kidnapping.
He said: “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.
“By the time this system is put in place, we will have a lot of technology to manage this crisis – particularly this issue of kidnapping. We will go a long to ensure that we reduce the number of kidnappings in this country,”
“The CCTV is going to be on all the major highways in all the states of the Federation, it is everywhere in this country.”
In 2010 after Olusegun Aganga, then Minister of Finance Minister, led a delegation to Beijing, China, where the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed the project was awarded to ZTE Communications, a Chinese firm, for $470m — an equivalent of N76b.
But today many of the CCTV are not functioning.
According to International Center for Investigative Reporting the multi-billion naira CCTV never worked since their installation on day one.
‘From cameras to cables, batteries and solar panels, almost all the CCTV installations within and around Abuja have been vandalized. Though they are meant to capture crimes in the city, the cameras cannot even protect themselves! What remains of many of them now re just the carcasses.’
