In a bid to tackle insecurity in Imo and other South-Eastern states, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of technology to improve the region’s security. Hope Uzodinma, the Governor of Imo State revealed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday shortly after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said, “I also appealed to him for further support, to help us with some technological deployments we have planned to be able to use as an advanced kind of security control in the South-East, and he has also given his approval to that.
“And in a moment from now, we will be getting some surveillance equipment and some modern technologies that will help us manage security so that we can fight crime with little or no collateral damage to the environment”.
The Governor also visited the President to appreciate him for various forms of support to the region such as converting the Federal Medical Center, Owerri to a University Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology, amongst others.
Uzodinma also commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the construction of the almost completed Second Niger Bridge, adding that “only two weeks ago, Igbos that came home from Lagos and outside Southeast enjoyed the benefit of the Second Niger Bridge. This is something that is worthy of commendation.”