Cross River To Procure 50 Security Vehicles – Assembly Speaker

The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Elvert Ayambem has said the state government has concluded arrangements to procure operational vehicles for security agencies.

He urged the federal government to take the issue of insecurity seriously by providing operational vehicles and world-class gadgets for security agencies as well as improving their welfare to boost their morale.

The speaker who spoke to journalists in Abuja said the federal government needs to equip the military, the police and other security agencies with vehicular logistics and other gadgets for better results in their fight against insecurity and other vices.

He said, “Cross Rivers State government is doing a lot. As I speak the state is on the verge of procuring 50 operational vehicles for security.

“The state government is carrying out massive projects in the barracks, the parade ground. He is also carrying out similar projects in the DSS facility.

“That is why I said the government we have now is very responsive. Ordinarily he should see them as Federal Government parastatals what would he be doing with that spending of the state Government money.

“But basically, it is a matter of time, he will need their services. Right now we have completed that phase of purchasing 50 operational vehicles to donate to most of the security agencies which will also boost security for our state.

“If you check you hardly hear the issue of kidnapping in Cross River State based on the effort of the governor. If you travel through the sea, you will see Navy checkpoints right in the middle of the sea, so those Kidnappers will not have any route to take their victims through. The water ways are safe now.

“You see police stations these days without even an operational vehicle. If the Federal Government looks into it to get operational vehicles for utility for the police and world class gadgets to all the security agencies it would go a long way in boosting their confidence to fight crime.

“Let me tell you. A robbery that took place some weeks back, because the police had no operational vehicles the culprits escaped before the police could reach the scene as at when due,” he said.