UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Mr Daouda Toure
The UN says it will set up “ICT-based Early Warning Systems” in Borno and other states in the North East to ensure rapid response to activities of Boko Haram.
Dr Daouda Toure, the UN Resident Co-ordinator, said this in Gombe on Wednesday, at the ongoing screening of Boko Haram victims for a one-year skills acquisition programme.
He said the project would also enable victims of Boko Haram to access help promptly.
Toure said the ICT-based system, when installed, would allow people to send real-time incidents which pose threats to the society to a central control room through imaging, SMS and e-mail.
The UN official said the information would then be retrieved, analysed and responded to within minutes.
“Part of the programmes we (UNDP) are planning for Borno and the North East is to have the ICT-based Early Warning System.
“ICT early warning system is a system that is ICT-based like it is called.
“You can send SMS to that system, you can send video imaging to that system, you can take your photograph and send to that system and it will be there.
“So, people will be able to see and analyse.
Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau and his lieutenants
“We had a meeting with the Borno Governor about two weeks ago and we told him about this and he was very much interested. We are going to meet with him further to see the mechanism to set up this.
“We can set it up but the real operation comes from the government because they control the security agencies, they control the staff.
“They (government) will have to provide the space where you install computers and people will work 24 hours because in managing crisis, people have to stay alert.
“You (staff) have to be there morning, afternoon, evening to ensure that if there is …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
