Embrace local content, assist police in crime fighting, Delta police boss challenges engineers

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Delta State Command, Mohammed Ibrahim has challenged engineers in the country to embrace local content in the construction of infrastructure and assist the police in intelligence gathering to fight crime.

The police commissioner gave the challenge when members of the Asaba branch of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), paid him a courtesy visit in his office at Asaba.

The police boss also tasked the engineers to help check the decay of infrastructure as some projects have turned to hideouts for criminals and prostitutes, calling on them to ensure that the right materials are used for projects to avoid collapse.

You are Nigerians, therefore, you know the terrain of different parts of the country, and so, you should be able to reflect that in the infrastructural development of the country, he pointed out.

While also urging members of NSE to embrace holistic change and ensure that the right thing is done, he enjoined them to assist government with their professional expertise in finding permanent solution to flooding in Asaba and other parts of the state.

CP Ibrahim enjoined them to wake up to their professional call by ensuring that engineers in the country take their pride of place and decried a situation where foreign engineers are the ones lording it over our engineers in the infrastructural development of the country.

The Police Commissioners who commended all engineers in the country, particularly lauded engineers in the police and military for their determination to offer better infrastructural designs in the country.

While assuring the people of the state that the police will continue to perform its statutory duties of crime fighting, prevention and ensuring security of lives and property, Mr. Ibrahim called for synergy to enhance community policing and promised to assist the NSE meet their demands.

Earlier, the chairman of Asaba branch of NSE, Engr. Bemigho Ofoeyeno, thanked the police commissioner for allowing engineers to visit, despite his busy schedule.

He congratulated the Commissioner of Police and his officers for reducing crime in the state to a tolerable level, stressing that Delta has witnessed peace and security since the commissioner assumed duty in the state.

Engr. Ofoeyeno used the opportunity to thank the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for the steps already taken to address the flood challenge in Asaba and other parts of the state.

He said that as a listening governor, based on the NSE’s professional advice, the state government has appointed one of their members as consultant to check the flooding challenge, particularly in Asaba, adding that he has already commenced work on the drainage project, saying that soon, flood challenge in Asaba will be over.

The Chairman of NSE commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for the peace that residents of the state have enjoyed since the inception of the present administration and for creating the enabling environment that has attracted investors to the state.

Ofoeyeno who listed his achievements, aimed at uplifting the practice of engineering, said that they were in the office of the Commissioner of Police to seek partnership on ways that the police and engineers can synergize to assist each other in their service to society.

He used the opportunity to invite the Commissioner of Police to the three-day NSE, Asaba branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) starting today at Swiss Spirit Hotel, Asaba and solicited for security and other support towards the successful hosting of the meeting.

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba