By Mercy Aikoye
The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation Technology has said it is committed to address air crashes as well as other safety abnormalities in the country’s airports.
Chairman of the Committee, Hon Abiodun Akinlade, who made the commitment during an inaugural meeting on today also said they will look into the controversy surrounding the Nigeria Air project.
Akinlade said the committee was highly concerned and worried at the recent various air crashes in the country and will do everything within its power to curb it.
Akinlade said the Aviation Technology Committee, which is a newly created, carved out of the existing Committee on Aviation, is a high-tech driven committee with so much expectations from members and assured that the committee will not fail to meet the expectations of the House, Nigerians and stakeholders.
In another development, a member of the House of Representatives Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters Hon. Chinedu Obika has called for overhaul of the security architecture of the nation’s capital by the Federal Capital Territory FCT Administration and the relevant security agencies as stakeholders.
He also appealed to Mr President to urgently approve the creation of a Security Intervention Trust Fund and and evolve a strategic Initiative of deployment of smart technologies in the nooks and crannies of the city and satellite towns in the FCT.
Speaking on the parlous state of insecurity in the nation’s capital at a media briefing, he said that no district nor class of people has been spared and certainly no one knows who the next victim of insecurity in the nation’s capital territory would be.
Worried by the statistics on the reported cases, he recounted that the incessant cases of banditary, kidnapping, one chance operations, armed robbery and other crimes have become the order of the day in the city.
The lawmaker while profereing solutions to the challenge of insecurity said that it is time to create a network of stakeholders comprising neighbourhood association, community groups and traditional rulers to build solid networks and partnership for effective policing of our neighborhood and localities.
He called on the Minister of FCT Nyesom.Wike to provide infrastructure to the Area Councils and satellite towns in the capital territory and lamented the total lack of coordinated efforts by estates neighborhoods and communities in the FCT to form a bulwark against organized crimes adding that security is everbody’s business.
