According to the Governor,
the bill is aimed at providing neigbourhood watch, vigilante patrol and
intelligence gathering, providing supportive information to the Police and also
providing a real-time, on- time emergency intervention in locations and areas
of physical security threats.
The Cross River State
Governor, Mr Ben Ayade, has signed the Home-Land Safety and Security Services
Bill 2016 and eight others into law.
The others include, the
Primary Health Care, Environment and Carbon Emission, Equal Opportunity and
Gender Based Discrimination Bills.
Other bills assented to by
Governor Ayade are, the Greater Calabar Development Agency, Cross River
University of Technology (CRUTECH) Amendment, Harmonized Levies and Roads
Infrastructural Maintenance Development Laws.
Speaking at the signing
ceremony at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s Office in Calabar the State
Capital, Ayade explained that the Cross River State Home-land Safety and
Security Services Bill, code-named “Operation KBM” “is a response to the
increasing social and security challenges of the present day society.
Speaking further, the
governor said the philosophy behind the Home-land Security is based on the
African culture and tradition of being “ones brother’s keeper”.
The governor also commended
the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, principal officers and
other members for effective collaboration with the executive in churning out 23
bills since the inception of current administration.
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