Freeman disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, when the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, hosted him with few workers of the embassy to a private engagement and dinner, according to Daily Sun.
The Israeli ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, has expressed the
desire of his country to assist Nigeria fight the worsening insecurity
across the country.
Freeman disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday,
when the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, hosted him with few
workers of the embassy to a private engagement and dinner, according to
Daily Sun.
He said that apart from helping Nigeria on intelligence gathering and
training of security personnel, Israel will be relying on the Nigerian
government to specify other areas of needs it needed their assistance.
“I’ve
been in the country for only six months and I’m beginning to learn and
understand the wonderful country and people of Nigeria. We are looking
to see where we can partner with Nigeria. Certainly on security issues,
on agriculture and on technology. And we’re looking to see where but
it’s for the government and for the people of Nigeria to point us in the
direction where we can help them work together.
“But as the
senator said, certainly in areas of training and in areas of others
we’ve been, we would be very interested in sharing best practice and
sharing intelligence. We would certainly be interested in working
together,” he said.
Earlier in his remarks, Kalu expressed the
readiness of the Senate to support the collaboration between Israel and
Nigeria to curb insecurity in the country in aspects of ammunition and
training.
Kalu, however, pointed out two key areas of agriculture
and security, which he said Nigeria must tap from Israel to address the
nation's food security and other security concerns.
“This ambassador
is barely six months here. And we at the Senate will do everything
possible to make sure the next appropriation will focus on Israel, and
Israel will come over to give us important training in areas of
security.
“We are doing everything possible to maintain our
relationship with the Israelis and then. You know? The Israeli history
is a successful history. And if Nigeria can learn two things from the
Israelis, which are security and agriculture, we shall make a lot of
progress and we’ll go a long way.
“I don’t want to talk too much
about what Israelis can do. I have one of the agricultural companies
that revolutionised Agriculture in the northern part of Nigeria in terms
of equipment and all, “Sotadan Suki” used to be their chairman and I
hope that we can find common ground with the Israeli companies. The
government and people should talk about two things –agriculture and
security,” he said.
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