The Managing Director of Northeast Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Goni Alkali said the success of the commission in the region is largely dependent on the support security agents are providing for the commission.
Alkali stated this yesterday at the Commission’s headquarters in Maiduguri at the presentation of non-operational materials to the Borno State Police Command worth millions of naira.
Mr Alkali said the commission will continue to support the security agencies in their duties as they continue to secure the region from the hands of Boko Haram insurgents.
He noted that the non-kinetic approach of the commission in the fight against insurgency wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the military, the police and other security agencies working in the region.
“We in the Northeast Development Commission take security very seriously because the success of our work depends largely on the security agencies working here. We will continue to support the security in every way we can,” the MD pledged.
He added that the commission has reconstructed a police barracks burnt by Boko Haram at Garkida in Adamawa state and the one at Konduga and Bama local government areas of Borno State.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Hajiya Sadiya Farouq represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry Dr. Nasir Gwarzo noted that the Police needed more support from governmental and donor organisations to effectively secure the country.
Receiving the materials, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Logistics and Supply, Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim who represented the Inspector-General of Police, Baba Alkali promised that the force will make judicial use of the materials.
DIG Zanna also called on the NEDC to make more donations in operational logistics interventions such as the purchase of operational vehicles and Armored Personale Carrier vehicles.
He commended Borno State Government for its investments in that direction which have cost billions of naira.
The DIG on behalf of the Inspector General of Police thank the NEDC for the donation which he noted is in line with the mission of the police to term out insurgency and other criminality in the Northeast and the country at large.
Other activities carried out by the commission include the presentation of certificates and starter packs to the beneficiaries of the Batch C NEDC ICT Training Programme as well as the inauguration of two newly established ICT Resources Centres for Borno North and Borno Central Senatorial Districts, handing over of office equipment/items to Borno State Geographic Information System and handing over of educational and instructional material to Command Science School Auno.