The Federal Government is set to generate suggestions and solutions from the public on how to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, monuments and business assets from unwarranted disruption and destruction.
The Presidential Think-Tank on defence and security made this disclosure while announcing its forthcoming national summit on ” Protecting Nigeria’s Critical Infrastructure, Monuments and Business Assets” scheduled to hold at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, from 6th – 7th
In a pre-event press conference, the members of the Presidential Think-Tank on defence and security led by the Chairman and Secretary, Major Gen. Abdul Malik (rtd) and Maj. Gen. A.T. Umaru, respectively, explained that the summit was in response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s call -to-arms to the Armed Forces, Intelligence and Security establishments, business owners as well as to all residents of Nigeria to work in concert to “reducing the vulnerability of the Nation’s Critical National Infrastructure to threats and hazards, on the one hand, and improving the resilience of such critical national infrastructure by strengthening their ability to withstand and recover from disruption.”
They explained that this will involve a number of measures ranging from:
Physical protection to prevent damage or disruption; Building a level of reliability into them so that they ca? continue to operate even after an attack; Ensuring that there are back-up systems; to Putting in place organisations that can rapidly respond effectively to threat events to enable such infrastructure recover quickly from disruptions.
Also, the national Infrastructure consists of those facilities, systems, sites, information, people, networks and processes necessary for a country to function and upon which daily life depends.
It also includes some functions, sites and organisations which are not critical to the maintenance of essential services, but which need protection due to the potential dangers they could pose to the public in the event of an emergency (civil nuclear and chemicals sites for example), among others.
Some of the speakers and sub-themes of the summit include: Prof Niran Oluwaranti – Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and Theme: Institutionalizing early warning systems and response architecture for threats to Infrastructure, Monuments and Business Assets; Maj Gen Emeka Onumajuru DSS,PSC+,PSC(J),fdc+,UNISOM Il – Deputy Commandant National Defence College, Abuja and Theme: Systematizing a framework for Intelligence generation, information management’ and tracking against threats to Infrastructure Monuments and Business Assets and Prof UA Tar – Head, Centre for Defence Studies and Documentation, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna and Theme: Domesticating frameworks and protocols for the stratification, codification and protection of national Infrastructure, Monuments and Business Assets
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