The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Sunday queried the abandonment of the $470m (N76bn) National Public Security Communications System Project in Abuja.
Otherwise known as the CCTV Camera Project, it was supposed to help Nigeria shore-up her security but has remained shrouded in “mystery, wastage and embezzlement of scare national resources.”
According to the APCPCO, the shoddy and inadequate delivery on the project which was designed to cover Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Bayelsa, Kaduna and Kano in its pilot phase is heartbreaking.
This was contained in a statement signed by the campaigns Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday.
The APC campaign queried the sincerity of the Nigerian government in its battle against insecurity and corruption, when it could not deliver on a project that was supposed to use technology which President Jonathan lately had a passion for, to make our cities safer, like the practise in other countries.
Shehu said, “It is heartbreaking that in an era that we are confronted by huge security challenges, especially as it relates to the insurgency, the Jonathan administration has failed woefully to deliver on the safe cities’ project after billions of our scarce resources have been spent, wasted or stolen on these phantom projects that have not added any value to the nation’s security asset.”
He also said it was bewildering that the PDP-led government had failed to report on the status of Abuja CCTV Camera Project even after the House of Representatives ordered probe and countless petitions to the anti-graft agency.
Shehu also said, “The PDP-led government owes Nigerians an explanation on the status of this project. This project must not go the way of several others, as it is too central to our security architecture to let some greedy persons to undermine it.”
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