Some Postgraduate Students of Criminology, School of Post Graduate Studies, University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Friday, said the country was ripe to leverage on technology to tackle insecurity.
They said this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, at the candle night service , organised by the school for its criminology lecturer, late Dr Ona Ekhomu,
Mr Obafemi Alao, a post graduate student of criminology, UNILAG, said that Nigeria was ripe for state of the art technology, in mitigating criminal occurrences and activities.
Alao said that developed nations like the U.S., leveraged on technology to fight crime.
He said Nigeria could use information technology to track and nab criminals as well as curb insecurity.
He described Ekhomu as an astute scholar and a security expert.
‘’Ekhomu is a well known security expert and social commentator. His vast knowledge of the security sector will surely be missed; students and all those he came in contact with will miss him too,’’ he said.
Mr Joseph Folorusho, another criminology student, said that if most sectors such as bank and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board could be digitalised, it should also apply to the security sector.
He said that digitalisation of the police and military, would help fight crime within a limited time frame, rather than the long protocols witnessed in fighting crime.
He said the death of Eikhomu had created a big gap in the criminology department of the institution and the country at large.
Folorusho said the lecturer was grooming the post graduate students of criminology, on how to address insecurity and crime in the country.
Another student, Miss Anuoluwapo Olajubutu, said Eikhomu’s death was a rude shock and that he would be greatly missed as he was very impacting.
Mr Olukayode Olodenegan, staff of Trans-world Security International, said the deceased gave him a career path in security and urged the post graduate students to continue in the legacy he left.
NAN recalls that Eikhomu, a security expert, lecturer and social analyst, died on Aug. 9.
(NAN)