When Nigeria launched the National Public Security Communication System (NPSCS), it was billed as a transformational leap for policing and internal security.
Costing about $470 million, over N700 billion at the current exchange rate, the project was designed to give the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies secure digital communications, real-time surveillance, emergency response coordination and nationwide command-and-control capabilities.
More than a decade later, the once-celebrated network lies largely dormant, vandalised o
