Fire authorities want review of Fire Safety Code[html]
The Acting Comptroller-General, Federal Fire Service (FFS), Mr Liman Ibrahim, has called for the need to review the agency’s National Fire Safety Code, saying it has become obsolete.
The Acting Comptroller-General, Federal Fire Service (FFS), Mr Liman Ibrahim, has called for the need to review the agency’s National Fire Safety Code, saying it has become obsolete.
Ibrahim made the call when he received Cadet Officers of the Department of Geography, National Defence Academy (NDA), in his office on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said that the service was faced with some challenges and had pledged to look into such areas to ensure that appropriate changes were made.
“There is need for the review of the Fire Service Act for reasons of obsolesce.
“There is also the need to define the status of the FFS in the statute,” he said.
Ibrahim also said that a proposal to draft the National Fire Safety Policy had been submitted to the Ministry of Interior, adding that they were awaiting inputs before it would be presented to the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
He disclosed that recruitment process of no fewer than 2,200 personnel into the service was at the concluding stage.
He added that in addition to the renovation and construction works of facilities in the service, “a relatively significant number of utility vehicles had been made available within the last four years’’.
“The service received