Security and intelligence experts have held a strategic one-day conference cum book launch on the future of joint security operations in Nigeria providing actionable solutions to the numerous challenges tearing the nation’s security architecture apart.
The conference with the theme ‘One Nation One Network; Forensic as the Future of Joint Security Operations had brought together security and intelligence experts, lawmakers, public servants, captains of industry, civil society and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria and other professional bodies.
The gathering held at the Nigeria Police Resource Center Jabi Abuja was a gathering of key stakeholders in the nation’s security sector comprising of the military, para-military and other security agencies in Nigeria.
The convener of the high-profile event HRH Erelu Pearl Chidinma Ogbulu said that the conference was organized primarily to gather key stakeholders in the nation’s security sector to brainstorm of the need to find solution to fraud and other related crimes and criminal activities in Nigeria
She stated that the conference is strategic in to the sense that the nation’s is a now at a major crossroad on the prevalence of fraud and other crimes petetrated mainly by very young Nigerians that seem to have defied solutions.
The event also witnessed the unveiling and launch of a book titled ‘Fraud Unmasked’ Forensic Fraud Solutions authored by the convener of the parley
The conference participants harped on the need for security and intelligence agencies of the federal and state governments in Nigeria to use forensic tools in detection of crimes and tracking of illicit financial activities of fraidsters through technology and expertise.
At the conference a major player in the automotive industry in Nigeria Mr Kefas Wngak Ropshik said that there is need to bring together young Nigerians involved in fraud to a training ground where their talents can be harnessed for national growth and productivity.
High point of the event was the unveiling and launch of the book by Prof. Babatunde the Special Adviser Technical and representative of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF Sen.George Akume among other dignitaries.