‘Use Security Designs To Protect Infrastructure’

A security expert, retired Col. Godwin Sunmola, has  advised local engineers to evolve designs to protect the nation’s infrastructure from damage, as  well as improve the safety of Nigerians.
Sunmola, who is the Head of Security Services, First Bank Nig. Ltd., made the call at a public lecture organised by the Lagos Branch of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE).
NIMeche is an arm of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).
The public lecture was entitled: “Physical Security Measures: Engineering as a Force Multiplier’’.
According to Sunmola, engineers have a major role to play in protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure.
“The purpose of critical infrastructure protection is to build capabilities and competencies to strengthen physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets,’’ he said.
He said that, terrorism and other forms of violence usually put the nation’s infrastructure and individual assets at risk.
“Engineers can protect these facilities through appropriate security designs,’’ Sunmola, a member of NIMechE and a fellow of the NSE, said.
He urged that the engineer must, at the design stage, take cognisance of the requirements to deter, detect, deny, delay and defend.
“These are the five-Ds of physical security measures.
“It is our job to design, build and maintain security infrastructure.