President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reiterated his administration’s commitment to the welfare of members of the Armed Forces and intelligence agencies.
He expressed optimism that Nigeria will prevail over the myriads of security challenges facing it.
Speaking yesterday at the inauguration of the Headquarters of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the president promised to kit the outfits with other administrative and logistics requirements to enhance their productivity.
Tinubu, who was represented by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, said: “I assure you along with the entire armed forces of Nigeria that I will sustain the provision of the welfare, training and other administrative and logistics requirements to enhance your productivity and to enable you to carry out your mandate.
“I am persuaded that a conducive and well- equipped intelligence outfit would positively impact on the overall intelligence gathering effort, processing and timely dissemination to various arms of the military.”
Commending the present and future leadership of the DIA for seeing to the completion of the project, he said: “Let me at this juncture, commend the leadership of the DIA past and present for conceiving and completing this beautiful edifice.
“It is my sincere belief that out of this magnificent office structure shall emerge innovations and creativity in the field of intelligence gathering that would keep Nigeria ahead of its foes and make our country and people safer.
“Since I assumed the leadership of our great nation a year ago, I have made the task of securing every inch of our country a topmost priority. I have no intention of relenting on this sacred duty.
“I am thus delighted to be here today to inaugurate the headquarters of the DIA; a key agency in our security architecture that primarily provides intelligence to our armed forces and Ministry of Defence.
“Our country is bedeviled by myriads of security challenges across the six geo-political zones. We are not only faced by physical threats, but also economic and digital threats. In terms of digital threats, we are all aware of the capacity of criminals, terrorists and cyber bandits to exploit advances in technologies to undermine any nation including our own.
“This is why security tops the eight-point agenda of our administration. In our bid to combat physical threats, we deploy our armed forces in all the 36 states of the federation to assist the civil authorities.”
