Nigeria: Emergencies - Enugu Urges Residents to Take Advantage of 112 Toll Free Line

What the report says

The Enugu State Government is urging residents to use the national emergency number 112 to report security or other urgent incidents anywhere in the state. According to Premium Times, the appeal was made by Vincent Onyeabor, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Peter Mbah on Security, after he showed journalists parts of the state’s Command-and-Control Centre in Enugu.

Onyeabor said the state has adopted and integrated 112 as its official emergency security line. He added that a dedicated workstation operates around the clock to receive calls, sort complaints, and pass information to the appropriate response teams. The system, as described in the report, can also relay alerts to the Command-and-Control Centre for camera-based monitoring or to nearby Distress Response Squad vehicles for intervention.

The government presented the line as part of a wider security technology network that includes surveillance cameras, drones and mobile response units. Premium Times quoted Onyeabor as saying the state wants more residents to use the toll-free line so incidents can be reported quickly and action taken faster.

The report also said the state attributes an 80% drop in crime to these technological deployments, although that figure appears to be a claim from the official rather than an independently verified assessment in the article.