NOA Takes Security Awareness Campaign To Schools

Rivers State Director of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Chief Andy Nweye, says the agency has extended its security awareness campaign programme to schools in order to sensitise students on its importance.

He told newsmen in Port Harcourt recently that the campaign would make young people to be security conscious on how to deal with security related issues.

He said security agencies needed the support of the people to tackle crime in the country and that the people must be security conscious to play their role.

Nweye said globally, security was a top issue which make countries place emphasis on security consciousness of their people.

The directive from our headquarter is not only to talk to matured people.

“We have also gone to the primary and secondary schools. Catch them young because this is something has to be there in us, it has to live with us.

“It is an institutional problem and if we do not strengthen that security consciousness, we might have to linger with much more of these problems.

“it is a global issue, there is no part of the world where you do not have robbery, terrorism and all that but a lot of these issue are reduced because of their level of consciousness.”

“We have been on with this and it is on going in all parts of the country. We will continue until we are sure that Nigerians have reached a level where that is manageable enough to sunstain the security of the country.”

He urged Nigerians to assist security agencies tackle crime in the country by being security conscious and provide useful information to them.