Senate President David Mark, has advocated stiffer punishment for anyone caught vandalising national assets and infrastructure, irrespective of the person’s status, to serve as a deterrent. Mark made the call in a remark at the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ forum on, ‘Protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure’, in Abuja .on Monday The forum was organised by the Office of the National Security Adviser for stakeholders to interact and come out with measures to protect state assets . Mark, however, noted that some of those charged with the responsibility of handling and protecting the assets had often colluded with vandals to destroy such infrastructure for selfish reasons. The Senate president, who was represented by the Chairman, Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Senator Mohammed Magoro, , said that the most critical asset of any nation was its human resource. According to him, protection of assets must start from within; not from without and the critical asset of any nation is its human resource. He said, “When you put these assets and infrastructure, they are handed over to certain persons but we have had experience in this country where internal connivance has brought down a number of them. “Attack on them (assets and infrastructure) should be seen as an attack on Nigeria national interest; these are things that we will break or make us.’’ He called for adequate remuneration for security forces and others saddled with protection of the infrastructure to motivate them as some of them compromised due to poor pay. The Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, called for review of the national security policy to enable security agencies to adequately deal with vandalism of infrastructure and other challenges. Tambuwal, who was represented by Rep. Umar Bature, Chairman, House Committee on Interior, noted that the policy had not been reviewed since 1986. According to him, our greatest challenge now is how to respond to vandalism of assets and terrorism. posted on September 03, 2013 at 12:03AM jtnng.blogspot/
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:29:21 +0000
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