The Surveyor General of the Federation (SGOF), Abduganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin, has advised security agencies to use digital maps provided by his office when planning operations in the country.
Adebomehin noted that mapping is an integral part of security architecture, and the country cannot be an exception if we are to combat current insecurity effectively.
A statement by the Head, Information and Publication Relations
OSGOF Mr Henry David, said Adebomehin, stated this while hosting the former General Manager of Shell Group and the current Group Managing Director of the Nembe Exploration and Production Company Limited, Ike Okoronkwo, with his management team in his office today
He said, “I don‘t know how they will talk about security, and they don‘t know they will use maps. If they can subscribe, we‘ll be able to give them maps; we have been able to digitalise everything. We call for paper presentation on mapping at a time, only a few of them were able to turn up, while others were giving different excuses, but those who attended the presentation gave feedback as, oh, we can now see why we need this.”
He added, “What we have done is to digitise each of the states, and we have a database that we are attached to, except where we are not entirely convinced that we have enough data. “
In his remarks earlier, Ike said, “The Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation is a significant one when it concerns special data mapping, management and marketing. Most people don‘t realise that surveying was in defence in some countries. When we started the GPS, there was a deliberate effort to design it for the military, so they didn‘t want civilians to use GPS and satellite imaging to locate a place and then commit a crime.”
He said, “We have implemented digital mapping, and then I proposed matching that with spot images and all that, then matching them together. That is how everything became the precursor to working today, known as Google Maps. “
The GMD, while stating his mission to OSGOF, said, “ We are reuniting and connecting with OSGOF, and it is a great experience for us at Nembe Exploration and Production Company, and it‘s my pleasure coming to this office to present to you the conference bag, our company identity and others. We pray that the country will go from strength to strength because when I look at the survey, when I came into the survey, I never knew that surveying is worth talking about”
