Customs Harps On ICT Use Against Insurgency

The Nigeria Custom Ser
vice (NCS) has called on the Federal Government to consider the effective use of international communication Technology (ICT)in  intelligence surveillance in  its bid to fight insurgency in the country.
A top NCS, officer who pleaded anonymity said this at the just concluded 25th National Conference and 47th Annual General Meeting  of the service in Enugu State.
The officer, said ICT was an enabler of growth and  national development and as also, the highest  employer of Labour.
Based on the above argument, he noted that governments   at all levels could reach out to the citizens  via the medium (ICT) as to secure them  against criminal  activities in the country.
According to him, the  best  thing to do now, was to educate all stakeholders on the need to form a strong force in the transformation of the nation from information society to a knowledge based economy.
He explained that the economy would  strive on the production and dissemination of ideas.
The cartoon officer, also called  for a concerted investment in knowledge production via ICT, should  the country want to get it right in the area of insurgency.
The Tide, gathered that this requires urgent domestication and localisation of Nigeria  policy vertically through the various tiers of government across various ministries and departments in conjunction with IT professionals and practitioners.
The command, also lauded the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and others  over their  commitment through the deployment  of ICT  for information dissemination and other  opportunities.
It would be recalled that some experts in the country, including a Port Harcourt based NGO, have before now, suggested the case of ICT as the best option to tackle insecurity in the country.

Pupils of Greenhill International School, Port Harcourt at the Computer Room of the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation during an excursion, recently.