2023: Avoid activities that can tarnish your image, Buhari warns security agents
•President inaugurates DIA Estate in Abuja
By Admin
Ahead of the 2023 general election, President Muhammadu Buhari has again warned security agencies to desist from activities that can tarnish their reputation.
He noted that “by compromising the democratic process”, the reputation of the security agencies would be soiled.
The President, who reiterated his earlier warning yesterday while ianugurating the Defence Intelligence Agency’s (DIA’s) newly acquired estate in Idu-Karmo area of Abuja, also advised security personnel to maintain a high sense of professionalism.
A statement yesterday in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said President Buhari urged the agencies to handle the distribution and monitoring of classified materials and other logistics “professionally and in accordance with Standing Operation Procedures”.
On the newly acquired DIA Estate, the President said the befitting accommodation would enhance productivity and coordination of activities of security agents as a number of them face new challenges and responsibilities.
“The significance of today’s occasion can be better understood by making the connection between shelter and productivity. This underpins the administration’s vision for provision of shelter to improve performance as well as comfort for workers, families and communities.
“This commissioning ceremony further avails another opportunity to reaffirm my confidence in the competence, commitment and achievements of the Defence Intelligence Agency’s giant strides achieved across the nation.
“I am confident that these new premises will yield enormous shelter dividends to the Defence Intelligence Agency workers, their families and to the host locality.
“The acquisition of this accommodation is a great leap forward, but the envisaged benefits would be aborted without diligent maintenance,” he said.
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President Buhari advised the occupants of the estate to maintain a high standard for the facility.
He acknowledged the efforts of the agency towards meeting his administration’s housing policy for all Nigerians.
“The agency’s investment in staff accommodation complements our vision of achieving improved national security,” he said, hailing the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), Major-General Samuel Adebayo, for the laudable achievement.
The CDI thanked President Buhari for opening the new estate, saying the project would always be remembered by the DIA community as the President’s legacy gift for 2022.
Adebayo said the newly inaugurated staff quarters contain 16 units of three-bedroom terrace buildings with boys’ quarters and 48 units of three-bedroom flats all in suite.
He added that one of the blocks of six units of flats and two units of terrace buildings had been furnished as proto-types while the rest would be furnished in the course of the 2023 budget implementation cycle.
