The
U.S. Government has said it would send officials from its Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other security experts to provide
technical assistance to the Nigerian Government.
Speaking on Monday in Abuja, the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission,
U.S. Embassy, Alan Tousignant, who led a security delegation on a
courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, has
disclosed that the U.S. Government รข€‹would send officials from its
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide technical assistance to
the Nigerian Government to deal with terrorism.
According to Premium times,
the United States envoy said the delegation which comprised a team of
the U.S Security Governance Initiative that offers enhanced
security technical assistance to six African countries, including
Nigeria, was in the country as a follow-up to its earlier visit in
January.
They were in Nigeria at the request of the
Nigerian government to provide a holistic security technical assistance
and not to donate any equipment, adding that the federal government
identified three major areas of partnership to include enhancing the
Ministry of Interior’s emergency response coordination, Ministry of
Defence’s procurement procedure and the civilian security planning for
the North-East.
He said the week-long interaction between the SGI team and the
Nigerian security agencies would fashion out a robust roadmap to ensure
better efficiency, transparency and justice in Nigeria’s security
architecture.
The Team leader, SGI, Stephen Nolan, said both countries were
working to finalise and implement a Joint Country Action Plan (JCAP)
which was a document that outlined a roadmap for a successful
partnership, adding that the JCAP emphasised partnership and finding
Nigerian solution to its security challenges not about what the U.S was
doing for Nigeria.
He assured that the forthcoming elections in the U.S and the change
of government in January 2017 would not affect the project as they had
been working hard to ensure its sustenance. “I want to assure you
that we have been working for the continuity and sustainability of this
project, even after the Obama administration in January, 2017," he said.
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