By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Federal Government has disclosed that the Democratic Republic of Congo has requested Nigeria to help transform their fire department into a full-fledged fire service.
Acting Controller General of Nigeria’s Federal Fire Service, Karebo Pere Samson disclosed this Thursday in Abuja during a media interface.
According to him, “It is becoming clearer too that the call to assist DR Congo’s Fire Department to develop and grow into a Service like ours occasions the need to expand the capacity of our National Fire Academy to an international standard in structure, infrastructure and technology; the quality of lecturers/curriculum nonetheless.
“An extensive work must be done to raise all our training schools to international standards if we must measure up to a fire service that must stand at per with its global counterparts in performance, preparedness to respond to fire hazards and other disasters/emergencies and technology”, he stated.
Samson also informed that Kenya has also requested collaboration with the Federal Fire Service in order to understudy how the synergy between the service and the Nigerian Air Force NAF on aerial firefighting and patrols work.
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