July 24, 2012 by Fidelis Soriwei, (Punch Newspapers)
Participants at a workshop organised by the Advanced Learning Network Limited in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta has advocated the formulation of a national policy on the protection of critical infrastructure in the country.
The Chairman and Director of Studies, ALN, Dr. Femi Olufunmilade, called for the conduct of a vulnerability survey to ascertain the level of vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the country.
His call was contained in the lead paper he presented at the Strategic Policy workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection in Nigeria, in Abuja on Monday.
He also said it was necessary for measures to be put in place to safeguard identified strategic national assets from attacks.
He said such a national policy on critical infrastructure protection should provide a platform for effective interagency cooperation among all the military, security and agencies entrusted with the responsibility of managing disasters.
According to him, such an arrangement fashioned after the CIP policy documents in the European Union and the United States will culminate in the establishment of coordinating centre for joint operations among the various security organisations rather than waiting to establish a joint task force in reaction to emerging threats.
He said, “To put this in a conventional language, a survey is required to ascertain what threats to critical infrastructure are. In this regard, a comprehensive survey report will indicate threats by categories and by locality and, ipso facto, signpost what measures are needed to safeguard them.”
According to him, critical infrastructure include government buildings, military and security formations, oil pipelines, industrial estates and public utilities such as bridges, power stations telecom facilities, and others.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential amnesty Programme, Mr. Kinsley Kuku, who was represented by his special Assistant, Special Duties, Mr. Henry Ugbolue, said that indigenes should be involved in the protection of such infrastructure like pipelines.
His call was contained in the lead paper he presented at the Strategic Policy workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection in Nigeria, in Abuja on Monday.
He also said it was necessary for measures to be put in place to safeguard identified strategic national assets from attacks.
He said such a national policy on critical infrastructure protection should provide a platform for effective interagency cooperation among all the military, security and agencies entrusted with the responsibility of managing disasters.
According to him, such an arrangement fashioned after the CIP policy documents in the European Union and the United States will culminate in the establishment of coordinating centre for joint operations among the various security organisations rather than waiting to establish a joint task force in reaction to emerging threats.
He said, “To put this in a conventional language, a survey is required to ascertain what threats to critical infrastructure are. In this regard, a comprehensive survey report will indicate threats by categories and by locality and, ipso facto, signpost what measures are needed to safeguard them.”
According to him, critical infrastructure include government buildings, military and security formations, oil pipelines, industrial estates and public utilities such as bridges, power stations telecom facilities, and others.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential amnesty Programme, Mr. Kinsley Kuku, who was represented by his special Assistant, Special Duties, Mr. Henry Ugbolue, said that indigenes should be involved in the protection of such infrastructure like pipelines.
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