Goodluck Jonathan to Invite Nigerians Studying in Finland to Fight Insecurity

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A Finland based student, Dipo Daramola  and his colleagues may be on his way to bag a top assignment at the presidency Following a suggestion made on President Goodluck Jonathan's Facebook status on the way to fight insecurity and kidnapping through technology as the president has promised to invite him for consultation.

The student's interface with the president commenced when he responded to Jonathan's expression of his administration's wish to deploy technology to combat the menace of kidnapping following the release of four kidnapped Nigerian journalists, Mr. Wahab Oba, Chairman of the Lagos chapter of Nigeria Union Of Journalists, Adolphus Okonkwo, the union's secretary, Sylvester Okereke , Sola Oyeyipo and their driver a fortnight ago.

The president had stated on his status: "I am pleased with and welcome the release of the four journalists who were kidnapped in Abia State . I join millions of Nigerians to felicitate with their families. Kidnapping, armed robbery and other sundry crimes are a result of the erosion of our traditional values in addition to economic difficulties."

Jonathan said Nigerians have no choice but to revive their value system and rebuild the economy adding that he has directed the speedy intensification the deployment of technology based infrastructure that will help unmask these individuals and their sponsors.

Daramola, then responded to this posting by revealing that he and other Nigerian colleagues at Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland are currently involved in a project called The GPS gate, GPS trace, Google Maps on a mobile device to trace the location of the mobile device. (GSM Tracker).

"I think this project will help a lot in building the Nigeria Technology system section towards the VISION 2020." Daramola stated thereby eliciting an assurance from the president that someone from his office will soon reach out to him.
" I am proud of the work he is using his intellect to achieve. Dipo, Someone from my office will be in contact with you to explore the possibilities of deploying this technology for use by our security agencies." Jonathan wrote.

When THISDAY contacted him, an elated Daramola said that he has just finished talking to his research manager explaining further that the GPS gate, GPS trace, Google Maps on a mobile device are meant to trace the location of the mobile device.
He revealed that the other Nigerians on his team are, Adewale Adeyemo, Robert E Guinness and Oladeji Ikuesan all level two students of the same University.

He said their project managers are from United States and Finland adding that the project will examine Saterisk; the risks associated with satellite positioning technical, legal and use of connection viewpoints.

"The Saterisk project's goal is to produce a comprehensive inventory of satellite positioning, the risks of present and future. Another key objective of the project is to create a new hardware, services and training innovations." he said.

Source: Jonathan to Invite Finland-based Student to Help Fight Insecurity - This Day
By Paul Ohia, 07.26.2010

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Good luck to Dipo Daramola and his colleagues. We are proud of you and the positive initiative, which is expected of every Nigerians towards Nigeria, our fatherland.

In confirmation of the news above, I copied the following text from the facebook fan page of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria:

Goodluck Jonathan:  In response to my previous updates on Government's intention to deploy technology to combat the menace of kidnapping and calling for suggestions from my friends on this page, I received feedback with several suggestions and ideas. I thank you all for your response. I read with particular interest the idea of Dipo Daram...ola, a Nigerian student based in Finland, who is working on an advanced GPS technology which can be deployed in this regard. I want to commend Dipo and tell him that I am proud of the work he is using his intellect to achieve. I further recommend him to our youth in general and say- apply your intellect to meeting the needs of your community and the nation in general and humanity will not forget you. Dipo, Someone from my office will be in contact with you to explore the possibilities of deploying this technology for use by our security agencies. Once again, I thank you for all your comments. Please keep them flowing because I value them. GEJ

This is a gesture worthy of commendation and indeed a motive of utilising social media in alleviating national problems. Thumb up to the President for this initiative.

Let us encourage the students by sharing our views here.