By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
Determined to protect Nigeria’s critical infrastructure from vandals and economic saboteurs, a stakeholders summit will be held this month in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, aimed at building a synergy to enhance the development of response strategy to tackle the problems.
This hint was dropped in Abuja on Tuesday in Abuja at a press conference to formally unveil the forthcoming South-South Zonal Stakeholders Summit on Domesticating Stakeholders Statutory Responsibilities in Protecting Nigeria’s Critical Infrastructure and Assets.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Alfred Chiakor , Chief of Strategic Planning and Innovations, Ashcraft CSSR and Head of Secretariat, Summit Planning Committee, revealed that the summit will hold at Atlantic Hall, Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt from July 25 to 27, 2022.
Dr. Chiakor also said that the intensity of the diverse and numerous crisis of visualisation and destruction if Nigeria’s critical infrastructures and assets have prompted, at several instances, the call to arms by His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Armed Forces, Intelligence and Security Establishment and all Nigerians to see it as a patriotic duty to ensure maximum vigilance and shared responsibility in the protection and security of these assets and platforms at all points in their life-cycle.
According to him: “The South-South Zonal Stakeholders Summit is therefore a Private/ Public Sector Partnership that aims at building synergy, tact and appropriate techniques to enhance knowledge leadership and management in the development of a strategic road map for proactive intervention and response strategy in line with Risk Management Framework and provisions of the National Protection Policy and Strategy 2022 (CNAINPPS 2022); Petroleum Industry Act, 2021; the National Security Strategy Framework; and the Critical National Infrastructure Bill, 2022 currently under consideration at the National Assembly.
