ABUJA:
FIRE SERVICE TO ESTABLISH 6 TRAINING SCHOOLS
By Dorcas Pankyes
The Federal Fire Service is establishing six additional training schools, one each in the six geo-political zones in it’s quest to enhance capacity in the service.
The Controller General of the Service, Liman Ibrahim Alhaji, who made this known while on a visit to the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari on Monday, said the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has approved six States where the training Schools will be situated.
The States, he said, include Katsina in the North West. Borno in the North East, Kwara in the North Central, Osun in the South West, Abia in the South East and Cross River in the South South.
The CG said he was already collaborating with the State Governments on the sitting, construction and take off of the training schools. The Controller General said the Federal Fire Service has benefited immensely from the administration of President Buhari, stating that since the inception of the present administration, the service has procured 92 modern firefighting trucks and water tankers out of which 62 have so far been delivered while remaining 30 were to be delivered before the end of the year. He also said there had been recruitment of new personnel, rehabilitation of firefighting equipment and infrastructure, establishment of Federal Fire Service zonal offices and training schools across the country, expressing the readiness of the Federal Fire Service to kick off the Katsina Training School soonest.
In his words: “For a start, one state of the art modern firefighting truck and firefighters are being deployed for the take off of the training school.”
He said the Service will deploy another modern firefighting truck as well as firefighters to the State Fire Station in Daura to compliment the effort of the State Fire Service.
The CG, who stressed the need for collaboration between Federal and State Governments, called on the Katsina State Governor to provide more support for the Federal Fire Service to safe guard the lives and property of the good people of Katsina.
He also appealed to the Governor to do more in his repositioning of the State Fire Service by increasing the staff strength and in the rehabilitation of fixed mobile and fixed fire assets.
The Governor immediately allocated and handed over the Right of Occupancy document of about 10 hectares of land in Kankia Local Government Area to the CG for the training school.
The CGF was later received in Kankia and taken to the training school allocated land by Senator Ahmed Babba Kaita, the Senator, representing, Katsina North, Alh. Musa Hassan Sada, District head of Kankia and
Hosusa maikudi, Chairman, Kankia Local Government Council.
FIRE SERVICE TO ESTABLISH 6 TRAINING SCHOOLS
By Dorcas Pankyes
The Federal Fire Service is establishing six additional training schools, one each in the six geo-political zones in it’s quest to enhance capacity in the service.
The Controller General of the Service, Liman Ibrahim Alhaji, who made this known while on a visit to the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari on Monday, said the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has approved six States where the training Schools will be situated.
The States, he said, include Katsina in the North West. Borno in the North East, Kwara in the North Central, Osun in the South West, Abia in the South East and Cross River in the South South.
The CG said he was already collaborating with the State Governments on the sitting, construction and take off of the training schools. The Controller General said the Federal Fire Service has benefited immensely from the administration of President Buhari, stating that since the inception of the present administration, the service has procured 92 modern firefighting trucks and water tankers out of which 62 have so far been delivered while remaining 30 were to be delivered before the end of the year. He also said there had been recruitment of new personnel, rehabilitation of firefighting equipment and infrastructure, establishment of Federal Fire Service zonal offices and training schools across the country, expressing the readiness of the Federal Fire Service to kick off the Katsina Training School soonest.
In his words: “For a start, one state of the art modern firefighting truck and firefighters are being deployed for the take off of the training school.”
He said the Service will deploy another modern firefighting truck as well as firefighters to the State Fire Station in Daura to compliment the effort of the State Fire Service.
The CG, who stressed the need for collaboration between Federal and State Governments, called on the Katsina State Governor to provide more support for the Federal Fire Service to safe guard the lives and property of the good people of Katsina.
He also appealed to the Governor to do more in his repositioning of the State Fire Service by increasing the staff strength and in the rehabilitation of fixed mobile and fixed fire assets.
The Governor immediately allocated and handed over the Right of Occupancy document of about 10 hectares of land in Kankia Local Government Area to the CG for the training school.
The CGF was later received in Kankia and taken to the training school allocated land by Senator Ahmed Babba Kaita, the Senator, representing, Katsina North, Alh. Musa Hassan Sada, District head of Kankia and
Hosusa maikudi, Chairman, Kankia Local Government Council.
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