Adeleke Floats Statewide Security, Surveillance Project

Ahead of his second-term inauguration, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun has initiated a comprehensive security project in partnership with a Shanghai-based firm to secure all sectors of the state.

The governor, in a statement made available to journalists in Osogbo by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said he and top executives of Hefei Shengwen Information Technology Company Limited met on Monday to discuss and finalise the details.

According to him, the planned security projects include installing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art security and intelligence system and platform in Osun State to ensure security coverage across the entire State.

“The security status of the entire state will be monitored from the Command and Control Centre. The system involves the widespread use of drones, radar, artificial intelligence-enabled cameras, robotics, and Internet of Things devices throughout the State, gathering information and monitoring events in real time, 24/7.

“The system includes a safe-school-project as well as a decentralised app Installation on citizens’ phones to link them to the Command and Control Centre. The facility will cover schools, banks, industries, farms, mining sites, commercial centres, bus parks, and motor garages across major towns and arterial routes of the state.

The Chinese team, led by Mr Cai Jianfei, who also invited the governor, for a working visit to China said the project is all-inclusive and integrates the capacity of the state leadership to secure and protect citizens and businesses across the state.

Commenting on the planned project, Adeleke cited his administration’s establishment of the State Security Trust Fund and argued that the security project is designed to deploy new technologies to secure the state.