President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of advanced technology to tackle insecurity in Imo State and other parts of the South-East region of the country.

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, revealed this to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday.

Uzodimma said he was in the Villa to thank Buhari for the various supports and assistance given to the state and appeal to him to approve the technology deployment to enable the area to deal effectively with the security menace.

The governor stated that with President Buhari’s approval, advanced surveillance equipment will soon be delivered to the region to enhance the fight against insecurity without collateral damage.

He, however, thanked the President over the recent conversion of the Federal Medical Centre Owerri to a University Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology, and the approval that converted Alvan Ikoku College of Education to a Federal College of Education.

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Governor Uzodimma said the visit was “also to thank him for the various supports he gave to us during our period of security challenges and the support he has also given to us in terms of the various approvals.

“Only two weeks ago, Igbos that came home from Lagos and outside South East enjoyed the benefit of the second Niger Bridge, something that is worthy of commendation.

“I also appealed to him for further support, to support us with some technological deployments; we have planned to be able to do an advanced kind of security control in the South East and he has also given his approval to that.

”And in a moment from now, we’ll be getting some surveillance equipment and some modern technologies that will help us manage security so that we can fight crime with little or no collateral damage to the environment,” he said.

The Star