Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State on Monday inaugurated a Security Tower and City Gate built by the Ihe Community in Awgu Council Area of the state.
The project, worth N55 million and situated at the entrance of the community, was built by a group known as the Ihe G-10 to secure the community from all forms of criminal acts.
Inaugurating the project, Mbah said the project aligned with his policies towards securing entire Enugu State and make it crime free.
The governor, represented by the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Emmanuel Obi, said that his administration had initiated Command Centre infrastructure with cameras to monitor activities in strategic areas of the state.
“So your cameras here are going to support the network of cameras going round across the state.
“It is a thing of joy to see that the people of Ihe have decided to align with the policies of my administration to consider security as something worthy of giving attention to.
“You are today inaugurating your security tower and city gate at Ihe junction so that activities here that are unbecoming will be readily recorded”.
“This will allow vehicle number, movement being watched and make it possible for security operatives to be able to triangulate views from different angles”.
Earlier, the President of the G-10, Air Commodore Chiemeka Ozoemena (Rtd), said that the group decided to build the security tower and city gate due to the security challenges being faced in the community.
According to him, the Ihe group of 10 decided to create a security infrastructure at the community entrance that will take care of security at the vulnerable points.
He explained that the Ihe G-10 was initially made up of 10 prominent young men from the community, saying that the association now currently had about 12 members.
“The resources to building the edifice is generated by the group. The edifice comprises not only building but an electronic infrastructure that cover 360 degrees by an electronic security system.
“The cameras are integrated in the cloud. So if anything happens around here, within 1000 metres from here, it will be able to capture it. And if it happened that there was nobody to take note of that immediately, we can download it from the cloud.
“This gives us a total security package within our environment and we have the intention to cover the entire Ihe with the electronic surveillance system”.
He lauded Mbah for his numerous project, saying the group was very much in tune with what he had been doing to ensure that Enugu was secured. (NAN)
