By Daniel Tyokua
Security experts have reappraised areas needed to tighten the security structure across African region.
Speaking at the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) conference held in Abuja, Thursday, the experts adopted more planning, information sharing and synergy as areas to be taken more serious to protect lives and property.
The Chief Executive Officer of ASIS International, Peter O’Neil, said the conference, which brought together men and women was propelled by the need to protect assets and people, in partnership with the government and private bodies.
He said the event tagged: “Managing Security Risks in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous and Digital (VUCAD) Africa would redraw network and sharing of knowledge as a critical issue in tackling security lapses.
O’Neil noted that, “ASIS International, is a group of minimum of 34,000 members around the world, who are security management professionals that work everyday to protect people and assets anywhere they can, relying on strong standards and guidelines and renown specifications to help them do the best they can be.
“We have a very strong presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular Nigeria as it has some of our biggest chapters. We rely a lot on voluntary engagement in the passion of our volunteers to produce conferences like this in Nigeria is part of the rotation.
“We work very hard in public-private partnership with governments, private agencies and consulting companies to make sure that people have access the best current information on the practice of security management that they can have”, he stressed.
Representative of the Norwegian Embassy, Saether Ronny, Head of Chancery and Consular Affairs, said the conference is not only important, but timely given its focus.
He reiterated that Norway remains fully committed to working with the organisation to manage and tackle the growing security threats in the region.
The Chairman, Local organising committee of the ASIS conference, Edward Orim, said it is one of the largest conferences in Africa, adding that it had kicked off with a cocktail in honour of law enforcement and their heads, who sent representatives, were appreciated for a lot of impact on the society.
Orim, who is also Chairman, Chapter 273 Abuja, said at the end of the Conference, “we would be making recommendations, and already, we have partnership with the FCT Administration, which we will definitely send these recommendations to them, which will support the administration in the area of security management.
The conference attracted speakers and attendees from Nigeria, the United States of America (USA), Ghana, South Africa, Bulgaria and other countries of the world.
