The Federal Government has revealed that it will provide security agencies with tracking equipment in a bid to put an end to the kidnappings in the country, News About Nigeria reports.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, stating that the procurement of these digital tools will help halt kidnappers in their tracks.
He noted that President Bola Tinubu has approved the procurement of this equipment and that the various security agencies have been able to point out what they need and it will be made available to them.
He further stated that while he was governor of Rivers State, he had made this equipment available, which helped reduce crime in the state.
According to him, the DSS had requested a particular piece of equipment during his tenure, and he provided it. He added that the state was the only state in Nigeria that possessed that equipment, and the headquarters sometimes came to borrow it.
“The equipment was able to track the specific phones, not one that would say for example the criminals are around the city here. With that equipment, it was specific. It can track a particular phone to the exact spot or room,” he said.
Wike lamented that the lack of adequate equipment in the past had led to recent unpleasant events, maintaining that with the emergency procurement approval by the president, the story would now change.
He added that the motorcycles that were requested by the police to enable them to get to places where vehicles cannot get, like the remote and mountainous areas, will be given to them, stressing that whatever measure is needed to be employed to bring an end to insecurity in the country, will be taken.
