The Defense Minister, Bello Mohammed has called on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts to develop software solution that will urgently tackle insecurity in Nigeria.
He made this known at a Defense Sector ICT Forum organized recently by Ministry of Communications Technology and Galaxy Backbone. The minister described the current national challenges facing the country in the area of security, as a call for all ICT stakeholders to task themselves to come up with realistic solutions.
The forum tagged: “Integrated ICT Framework for the Defense Sector: An Imperative for National Security” could not have come at a better time in the history of our country, the minister asserted.
Mohammed stated: “We are at a watershed in the history of our nation. When a nation is at a crossroads, it is time to break barriers and leap to higher grounds. The reason is because every nation is a bundle of talent, intellect and creativity. These inner resources are hardly exploited or harnessed to the full except there are challenges.”
He however pointed out that all stakeholders must work together to evolve new ways of doing things and building capacity in modern information and communications technology.
The minister assured the people that the ministry of defense would support policy initiatives that could help the country benefit from a pool of ICT resources, information, knowledge, intelligence and technologies.