To be honest we all know $470m was never spent on those CCTV's, more like 40m naira...the rest was definitely embezzled. Of what point is it to install chinese cameras with no maintenance plan for it?

Are they not the same CCTV poles next to Yamoyus Petrol Station in Wuse 2 (less than 3 minutes from Emab) that drug dealers and fuel hawkers lean on to do business in broad daylight?

In this era of insecurity especially in the capital city, It would have been expected that a competent administration would rehabilitate these facilities as part of its security strategies. But of course, there's too much vodka and champagne in the Aso Villa for the clueless one to be able to think straight. Vote wisely.

Na wa oooooo. Nigeria things dey tire person sef. Anyway.............We have left corruption until it has become habitual, we have left national problems until they have become spiritual and we have kept choosing bad leaders after bad leaders until it has become scriptural. It is as almost we do bad to ourselves now without even thinking about it. it has become a trend!

So I urge my fellow Nigerians to sit down and reflect. Look at where we came from, where we are and where we are going. Everything that is happening right now is no accident. We are not poor because of an accident in history. We are not illiterate and unemployed because of an accident. We don't have a high rate of infectious diseases, death and birth mortality because of an accident . We have set a trend and giving excuses for it has gotten us to where we are today. It's sad but it's true.

So whatever happens is surely because of the absence of the two factors below.

1) A Good President is brought by a good political party which in turns bring good leadership.

2) Over 12 years down the line we have been picking the same party with no serious changes.

The only way out is to sit down, think and tell others that we lack the two and the only way to get these is to go to the ballot box and vote so that we make the changes that will take us to the land of Honey and Milk.

I urge all Nigerians to go out and vote wisely come 2015, don't sell your vote for a bag of rice that won't last you for a month. We need change, and we must bring that change ourselves.

Go Out And Vote 2015...... Like This Page and Lets Start The Campaign www.facebook.com/gooutandvote2015

Dere is God oh.

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It's so unfortunate that the minister of FCT is clueless just like our president. How can you install CCTV cams across the city without having a proper database of the citizens?! If the CCTV was able to capture the video of the crime perpetuated, how will the security apparatus be able to identify the culprits? Is it through NTA, AIT or Punch newspaper? We're so backward in this country. How can we spend 76 billion Naira installing CCTV in Abuja alone?

Until we start eliminating all those old clueless analogue pot bellied scallywags out of the Nigeria government, we'll have no peace!

If GEJ can't manage common cctvs within his enclave, then he has no business been in aso rock. Let me not conclude so soon anyway.

By the way I can vividly see onlinebizexpert....waddup Doc

$470m!



And they are not working and they don't even cover the whole state!


That amount is enough to install cctv in the whole nation!


We've failed!

seanet02: PDP---------------------------------Power!!!!!!

APC ??

chimoz: If GEJ can't manage common cctvs within his enclave, then he has no business been in aso rock. Let me not conclude so soon anyway.

You're absolutely right.

Smh!

Wait a sec, the ones in banks aren't functional last i checked. Dhafuck ! I mean there is a difference between streaming and actual recording. How much more a governments facility abi na equipment


Madam bring another alomo. At least this one dey function.

Let me not prophesy doom for this country. Why is this administration so so corrupt? Simple things like this cant work? What will now work? God must save us from this people

Can someone please name a single thing that works in Nigeria?...

Why should non-functioningl cameras even make the news?

From what I heard the contract of cctv was done by a company owned by DSP Alamieyesihga, GEJs boss and benefactor

Those small, efficient devices need not be installed in conspicuous places. Besides, apart from the lack of will of the Nigerian government, security gadgets need few routine maintenance to work for long time.

HAH: From what I heard the contract of cctv was done by a company owned by DSP Alamieyesihga, GEJs boss and benefactor

Yea..not only that, they also sunk the sum of 9 billion naira into it.

1. PREMIUM TIMES has learnt that some of the CCTV cameras installed around the capital city are mere toys, ostensibly fixed to deceive the public.

2. PREMIUM TIMES has learnt that some of the materials deployed for the critical national security infrastructure are of low quality compared to what those used in China. Yet Nigerian authorities are not known to have lifted a finger in protest.

3. Article 4 of MoU specifically indicated that the terms agreed upon by the parties be kept secret.
“The terms of this MoU are agreed by both parties to be confidential. All confidential information shall not be disclosed to third parties or used for any other purpose or the possibility of a business relationship between the parties unless agreed by both parties,” the document read.
The secrecy clause in the MoU, PREMIUM TIMES gathered, was created to allow top officials of the Police Affairs Ministry and the presidency to negotiate away some of the critical elements of the project.

This is how careless, callous, crooked and corrupt Nigerian leaders and officials are. Every act is laced with crookedness, meanness, unpatriotic mentality and wholesale corruption.

The loan they sourced from China to set up the CCTVs was meant for rural telephony, but it was diverted and used to buy Camera Toys to deceive Nigerians.

To cover their tracks and prevent Nigerians from asking questions since they knew exactly that the Cameras are toys and going to be non functional, they inserted secrete provisions into the contract stipulating that every no part of the contract shall be disclosed or revealed to anybody or any entity. Imagine our own government colluding with foreign companies to swindle public funds while at the same time telling the same Nigerian public to STFU and look the other way.

Bottom line, the money is gone and all we have to show for it is nothing but worthless Toy Cameras and a secrete contract telling us not to ask questions and keep the details about how they swindle us secrete and confidential.


Boko Haram is the least of our problem, we should worry more about our own government because they are worse than Boko Hram.

They put us in this precarious situation, they can not even defend and protect us and on top of that, they frustrate every efforts to keep us out of arms way while laughing all the way to their secrete bank accounts and also while Nigerians get blown to pieces with zero relief in sight and also while our president spends taxpayers money on foreign image laundering companies to erase his never ending corrupt ways, incompetence and aimless administration.

Crookedness, corruption and incompetence won again.


Btw, we are still on the hook and must repay the $500 million loan for the non functioning CCTV toys.


This country is truly on the brinks.

Those CCTVs are powered by solar panels, so where did the power failure come from?

Nigeria I hail thee

Ebubeslym: $470ጠ

for the installation of cctv's in a state


We have indeed failed.

FCT. A pretty small city and geographical area.

Yes, indeed we need not indulge in name calling to affirm that the cctvs may not all be working, inadequate & not maintained at all...Guess what the contractor is still being owed, meaning the task has most probably not been completed. Can we pride ourselves with the prerequisite data bank of other corresponding records to match any photo imagery from the cctvs? I've seen the solar panels on these cameras vandalised & most probably sold & bought off by some of those now crying wolf on this thread.

The city of Chicago plans to deploy more than 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places that would be tied into sophisticated software to spot emergencies or suspicious behavior under a plan announced by Mayor Richard Daley.

“Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes,” Daley told The Associated Press. “They are the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot.”

Officials say the bulk of the cameras are already in use at O'Hare International Airport, on the city's transit lines and in public housing, parks and schools. An additional 250 surveillance cameras still to be bought will raise the number available to more than 2,000.

The cameras would not all be continuously monitored by officers; however, software that detects activity on the video images, such as a bag being abandoned in a stairwell or wrong-way movement, will be coupled with the cameras.

If the software picked up suspicious behavior, a staff member in the city's Office of Emergency Management would be alerted.

Operators in 9-1-1 centers would be able to control a camera's image to help direct aid to a victim or gather evidence for police.

The Chicago system is expected to be in place by the spring of 2006. The $5.1 million cost will be covered through a federal Homeland security grant.

securitysolutions..com

The city of Chicago spend $5.1 million on well over 2,000 sophisticated security cameras, but we spent borrowed $500 million (100 x more) on worthless toys...

Nigerian leaders and officials really should face some form of Firing squad

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obailala: Can someone please name a single thing that works in Nigeria?...

Why should non-functioningl cameras even make the news?

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Corruption.....it comes in diffrent degrees you know......there is Bsc in Corruption, Masters in Corruption and the highest is PHD in corruption.

Only one person naija has achieved this PHD

CCTV installation in any city in Nigeria is a flawed idea abinitio. It defines aptly the theory of "putting the cart before the horse". Our data management system structure is dysfunctional if at all there exist any. If we must ever win this war, then the National Assembly must legislate to the effect that All local govt administration commence the thorough process of identifying all indigent natives, birth and death info unto a provided national data at once, otherwise we haven't even experienced the worst.

lol. CCTV not working? Na, thats not true.

The truth is there was no CCTV at all. most of them were dummy CCTV cameras but were not actually CCTV

Some were deployed in Lagos and went towards it and realised it was not CCTV at all.

one bastard took that contract from the government and brought fake in.

God is watching this bastards.

[quote author=seanet02]PDP---------------------------------Power!!!!!![/quote]
Power? which power or you mean something related to anyone below:
PDP---------------------------------Power Failure!!!!!!
PDP---------------------------------Failed Project!!!!!!