The Kogi state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with a Chinese firm to provide a first of its kind Smart Security architecture that will ensure a safer Kogi and greatly improve Economic and infrastructural Development.
What this means is that tough times awaits criminals and terrorists in the state.
Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello said all stakeholders including the Army, Department of State Services, Navy police and local Vigilantes among others were carried along in the development of the initiative. The project will be driven by 5G Network and a 30 megawatts gas powered electricity plant to be built by an American company.
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The first-of-its-kind smart technology will capture movements in and out of Kogi State from a command and control centre to decimate terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements that may want to infiltrate the state and other 11 states it shares boundaries with.
The Chief Executive Officer, Kogi State Investment Promotion and Public Private Partnership Agency, Abdulkareem Siyaka, disclosed that a lot of work went into the conceptualisation and design of the project with the Chinese firm, Hytera, to eventually arrive at an investment deal that would greatly improve the state’s economy while also grinding insecurity to halt in Kogi State as well as across adjoining states.
He noted that the project was expected to create over 685,000 jobs, attract over N591bn investment, yearly, while also encouraging migration to rural areas in the state, adding that a 5G licence had already been acquired by the state from the Nigerian Communications Commission.