FG INTRODUCES CCTV CONTROL ROOMS ON HIGHWAYS TO MANAGE EMERGENCIES AND SECURITY 01-11-24
By Sadiq Aminu FG introduces CCTV Control Rooms on highways to manage emergencies and security.
As part of efforts to ensure maximum safety on the nation’s highways, the Federal Government has introduced “CCTV Control Rooms” to attend to emergencies and enhance security across the country.
Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi stated this while conducting members of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Works around the facility during their oversight function on Federal road projects in Lagos.
Mr Umahi said the solar-powered pilot project, located at Adeniji axis of Lagos is expected to be completed in about a week.
He explained that the control room, manned by security operatives covers the entire section of the Third Mainland Bridge up to Falomo and environs with a response time of five minutes in cases of eventualities either on land or sea.
The Minister of Works said this facility would be replicated on other federal highways across the country.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Senator Mpigi Barinada, and his counterpart and House of Representatives, Mr. Akin Alabi, took turns to commend the Minister for the quality of work done so far on the Federal roads across the country, with an appeal to Nigerians to be patient with the President Bola Tinubu -led administration, stressing that his policies are geared for the benefit of all.
Africa247 correspondent Abiola reports that the federal legislators, led by Senate Chief Whip Onyekachi Nwebonyi, had earlier witnessed the flag off-off of the sixty – three kilometers segment in Ondo state of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and stakeholders’ meeting on the alignment of the project, held in Akure.