Chinese investors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kogi State Government to provide a high-technology security architecture that will capture movements in and out of the state from a control center to combat terrorism, banditry, and other crimes.
According to the state government, the security control deal would include Army, State Department, Navy, Police, and local vigilante groups.
According to Abdulkareem Siyaka, the Chief Executive Officer of Kogi State Investment Promotion and Public-Private Partnership Agency, a lot of effort went into conceptualizing and designing the project.
He said the deal with the Chinese firm, Hytera would greatly improve the state’s economy and grind cases of insecurity to a halt in Kogi State, as well as across adjoining states.
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He noted that the project was expected to create over 685,000 jobs and attract over N591bn investment yearly.
He added that the deal would encourage migration to rural areas in the state, stressing that a 5G license had already been acquired by the state from the Nigerian Communications Commission.
“We are putting the whole state on the map, real-time, virtual, audio, and visual. So as you enter Kogi State from anywhere, even through the bush, we will see you,” Siyaka said.
He added, “If you do something wrong, we will be able to intercept you using our field personnel on the ground.”
He stressed further that the governor would develop Kogi State and needed to be ahead of criminals by using artificial intelligence and super crime fighting infrastructure.
“We are bordered by 11 states. We don’t have control over, so the best way to arm ourselves is to go into this kind of project,” he said.
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