Commissioning of the Data Centre at EFCC HQ, (Abuja/Nigeria): 12 August, 2008
Speeches
Mrs. Farida Waziri AIG (Rtd.), EFCC Chairman
"Today's Data Centre commissioning illustrates clearly and in concrete terms what the cooperation between the Commission and the development partners present here can achieve. The Data Centres will serve as the nerve centres and repositories of data storage for the work the EFCC undertakes and is therefore a very important milestone in the sustained development of the Commission."
"This Data Centre as one of the three envisioned by the EFCC is very crucial in the fight against corruption. This Data Centre is certainly our vehicle towards a decent war against corruption in our country."
Mr. Denis Thieulin, Charge d'Affaires, EC Delegation (Abuja)
"We have been on ground with EFCC for a little more than two years and in that time, have seen the Commission's ICT transformed. In my view, these combined, and there are many other related items such as training which I have not mentioned, amount to a revolution in ICT capacity."
Dr. Phillip Kruss, UNODC ITS Chief (Vienna)
"For this particular project, the Information Technology Service of UNODC is using best practices developed over years of experience, ITS actually provides services to governments in 41 countries at this time. This experience has now been formalised in an infrastructure implementation process that we call goIDM (government office Infrastructure and Data Centre Model)."
Mr. Anthony Buckingham, Snr. Project Coordinator, UNODC Project (NGAS08), Abuja
"We have been on ground with EFCC for a little more than two years and in that time, have seen the Commission's ICT transformed. In my view, these combined, and there are many other related items such as training which I have not mentioned, amount to a revolution in ICT capacity."
Pictures of the Ceremony
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Media Clips for the opening Ceremony
Daily Independent photo clip Wed August 13 2008
Daily Trust Wed August 13 2008
Thisday Wed August 13 2008
Vanguard Online Wed August 13 2008
Vanguard Photo clip Wed August 13 2008