{"id":41733,"date":"2020-07-27T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=41733"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:51:43","slug":"police-ig-launches-n450million-nddc-covid-19-medical-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/police-ig-launches-n450million-nddc-covid-19-medical-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Police IG Launches N450million NDDC COVID-19 Medical Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has unveiled the N450 million COVID-19 pandemic medical equipment donated by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for the protection of men of the Nigeria Police Force in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n

Launching the equipment, which included Intelligent Disinfection Doors, at the Delta State Police Headquarters in Asaba, the police IG said that they would go a long way in assisting the police to serve the public better.<\/p>\n

Adamu, who was represented by of the Delta State Commissioner of Police,\u00a0Hafiz<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>Mohammed\u00a0Inuwa,<\/em>\u00a0thanked the NDDC for the gesture, noting: \u201cIn our detention facilities we have other members of the society, who for one reason or the other find themselves there. The medical equipment and palliatives will help us to protect everyone in our facilities and ensure good sanitary conditions for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank President Muhammadu Buhari and the NDDC for finding it expedient and important to provide these palliatives for us. We are happy that they saw the need to protect the lives of our police men, many of whom are vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stated that organisations partnering with the police bolster their confidence to perform their security functions well, adding that such collaboration would also help to protect the lives of police men and even members of the society who find themselves in police detention facilities.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, while handing over other medical supplies at the Police Officers Mess in Asaba, the NDDC Acting\u00a0Executive Director, Projects, Dr Cairo Ojougboh,\u00a0stated that the COVID-19 intervention was meant to complement the efforts of the Federal Government in checking the spread of the Coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n

He emphasised that the intervention was necessary because it was important to assist the police force to protect its members from falling victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhether we accept it or not, the police are the best friends of good people in the society. They protect us and without them, we will be in serious trouble. So we have to do everything possible to make sure that they are assisted to do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ojougboh observed that the medical palliatives, which included local fabrics of face masks, hand sanitisers, thermometers, hand gloves and disinfection machines, would be distributed to all police commands in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAll these palliatives we are distributing would not have been possible in the past because some people in the National Assembly will divert the funds. Before now, the two chairmen of NDDC committees in the two chambers of the National Assembly were the de facto managers of the NDDC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the IMC came on board, we said that we cannot continue on that path. We want to assure Nigerians that we will no longer allow the chairmen to arm twist us. You have seen the probe in the National Assembly where the lawmakers are the prosecutors, and the judge in their own case.<\/p>

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\u201cWe thank the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Nigerians for standing by the Interim Management Committee, IMC. We assure that we will continue to deliver on the mandate of the NDDC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ojougboh had earlier paid a courtesy visit to the Asagba of Asaba, Obi Chike Edozien, at his palace, where he informed him of the launching of the COVID-19 medical equipment and briefed him on what was going on in the NDDC.<\/p>\n

He told the Asagba that the NDDC was in the grip of some national lawmakers whose activities, he alleged, were stumbling blocks and should, therefore, be critically examined for Nigeria to move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to take the NDDC back to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, which supervised it for about 15 years. In those years, N3 trillion was committed and the SGF and the National Assembly didn\u2019t see what was happening. Now that the NDDC has started to make progress, should it return to where it came from?<\/p>\n

\u201cI am 60 years old now. So if I don\u2019t say the truth now, when will I say it? Your majesty, be assured that I have not stolen and I will not steal.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his response, Obi Edozien asked to be briefed on the place of Asaba in the activities of the NDDC. \u201cI ask because I am not seeing much of the benefits,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Asagba, however, noted that Ojougboh was always welcome in Asaba as one of his chiefs, noting: \u201cWe did not make any mistake to confer on you the Akinuwa of Anioma.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Niger Delta Development Commission (N<\/span>DDC) Acting Executive Director, Projects, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, (right) handing over some of the medical supplies for COVID-19 to the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, at the Police Officers Mess in Asaba, Delta State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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