By Bashir Bello
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Dr. Tajudeen Abbas has reaffirmed the commitment of the House in strengthening intelligence towards tackling insecurity in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the speaker Dr. Tajudeen Abbas at a public hearing on a bill for an act to establish private intelligence and investigation councils.
Declaring the public hearing open, the speaker who was represented by Hon. Muhktar Shagaya said the bill seeks to develop a regulatory framework for overseeing private intelligence and investigation firms by ensuring that they operate ethically, responsibly and within established professional standards.
He said security reforms remain a top national priority and that the time has come for a multi level policing to move from theory to a decisive level of action.
“Beyond Constitutional reforms there’s also an urgent need to strengthen community policing as provided in the police act 2020 to make it more effective and more responsive to the realities of local communities” he said.
Earlier, the chairman of’s House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence Hon. Ahmed Satomi said if established the bill aims to standardize industry practices, provide accreditation and certification for continuous training and development inorder to enhance collaboration between the private and public security sectors.
“To strengthen our security architecture requires innovative approaches including effective regulations of private security practices”.
