FG, Governors to revamp security training institutions nationwide

By Salisu Sani-Idris

Nigerian governors have unanimously agreed to partner with the federal government in rehabilitating, renovating all the police and other security agencies’ training institutions in their respective states

This was announced at the end of National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday.

To this end, the NEC approved the composition of a committee to conduct an on the spot assessment of the condition of all security training institutions nationwide.

Gov. Uba Sani of Kaduna State, made this known at a news conference at the end of the 153rd NEC meeting attended by President Bola Tinubu and chaired by the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“The National Economic Council (NEC) approved President Bola Tinubu’s proposal for the composition of the committee to oversee the overhauling and revamping of training institutions for security agencies nationwide.

“Mr President’s proposal followed a very robust presentation by the Minister of Budget and Economy Planning, Sen. Abubakar Bagudu, on the realisation of President Tinubu’s vision for a one trillion dollar economy.

“It also highlighted the necessity of investing more in security by the three tiers of government. And of course, Mr President raised serious concern about the condition generally of all the training institutions of the Nigerian police across the country.

According to Sani, all the governors at the meeting agreed that it is high time for all of us to collaborate with the Federal Government to address this very crisis.

“We believe if we want to raise the morale of the police nationwide, we have to invest in their training institutions, which are highly dilapidated across the country.”

The governor named Gov. Peter Mba of Enugu as the Chairman of the Committee, while former Inspector General of Police, Alkali Usman Baba was made the Secretary of the committee.

He listed other members of the committee to include governors of Kaduna, Taraba, Ogun, Akwa Ibom, Zamfara and Nasarawa states.

The governor said that the committee was given one month to go around and conduct an on the spot assessment of the situation and the condition of all the training institutions across the country.

This, according to him, is with a view to come up with a comprehensive report on how the Federal and State Government will collaborate in addressing the issue.

“All the governors again unanimously agree to partner with the federal government in rehabilitating, renovating all the police training institutions in their respective states.”

Uba also said that NEC looked at other sister agencies, and the committee was also charged with the responsibility to look at their training institutions to come up with a report on how the facilities will be equipped and renovated.

He said Mr President also urged the state governors to pay more attention to issues that affect the well being of the people, particularly at the grassroot.

(NAN)