By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji -Ojo, has told the heads of agencies under the ministry of interior to provide effective security to enable Nigerians sleep and close their eyes.
The minister gave this charge on Tuesday while addressing journalists at the ministry in Abuja.
“Protecting lives and property of Nigerians is not a favour but a responsibility that must be delivered.”
He charged them on the renewed hope of President Bola Tinubu, saying they must work together to make Nigeria prosper.“
At the meeting which was attended by Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi; Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS, Haliru Nababa; Controller General of the Federal Fire Service FFS, Engr. Abudulganiyu Jaji and Acting Comptroller General of the NIS, Mrs Caroline Wuraola-Adepoju as well as the Director, Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Correctional Services Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, the minister said; “We have to look at the Services, look at the bottlenecks and unbundle those bottlenecks.
“The immigration service, you have a lot to do. We need to secure our borders and deploy modern technology to ensure that all our land, air and sea borders are secure. I assure Nigerians that we are not going to disappoint them. NIS, the whole issue of passport delays and bottlenecks must be tackled. Nigerians, including those in diaspora must be treated with respect in all our passport offices. Foreigners should be able to come to Nigeria based on merit. It can no longer be business as usual. I so not work without timelines. There must be timelines and key performance indicators because responsibility without accountability is irresponsibility”, he declared.
“For the Federal Fire Service, the response time, we are going to look into that. I know you have your challenges, but I am going to work with you to tackle them. Fire is a serious disaster and we need to optimize our processes.
“Nigeria Correctional Service, we must work with critical stakeholders on the Administration of Criminal Justice Act. We have to look at how to decongest the custodial centres and effectively integrate ex-convicts back into the society. Our custodial centres must become places of hope.”
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