Abdulrahman Dambazau

1. Nigerian Army Wide Area Network Infrastructure (NAWANI) in 2010.

2. Reconstruction of 44 Army Reference Hospital and upgrade to a Level 4 UN Hospital.

3. Built YarAdua Barracks by Direct Labour using Army Engineers.

4. Expanded the Army Peacekeeping Centre to have capacity to train two battalions simultaneously and got UN recognition as a regional training centre.

Revised all Nigerian Army Training Manuals.

Laid the foundation of the Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Training Centre Jaji.

1. Carried our reforms of the 4 agencies under the Ministry, creating seamless process of career progression, especially for training, appointments and promotions.[9]

2. Introduced biometrics and digitalized the international passport, including advance Travellers information in partnership with the INTERPOL.[10]

3. He redesign the prison system to reduce the population of awaiting trials inmates, by ensuring that they have their days in court without necessary delays due to poor logistics. Procured a lot of vehicles, built 3000-capacity correctional centers, and also ensure that the new Correctional Act was signed into law to refocus the objective of the prison from punishment to treatment and rehabilitation in line with UN Standards (the Mandela Rule).[11]

commissioning of the new vehicles for the correctional service

4. He created a SITUATION ROOM for the coordination of the activities of all security and public safety agencies, especially in response to emergencies.

5. He led the US-NIGERIA Security Sector Initiatives for the reforms of the security sector in response to emergencies, defence procurements, and activities in the northeast.

6. He developed the idea of establishing the INSTITUTE OF DOMESTIC SECUTITY for the strategic training of senior officers in the security agencies.

7. He proposed the idea of production of passports in Nigeria rather than overseas to make passports cheaper for Nigerians and also protect the database.

8. He started the Ministry of Interior Games in every two years, and conducted twice before he the Ministry. The idea was to create a platform to enhance the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration of the agencies.

9. He revived the Federal Fire Service, from only one old fire truck in its inventory to more than 40 new fire trucks, many water tankers. Also established six Zonal Fire HQs, in addition to reactivating the Fire Training School well equipped.

Inspecting the reconstruction of the Federal Fire Service School

10. He created the AGRO RANGERS in the Civil Defence Corps for the protection of agricultural investments for individuals, groups and institutions against attacks from bandits and other criminals.

11. He initiated a High Level regional conference in partnership with ECOWAS COMMISSION for the implementation of the ECOWAS PROTOCOL ON TRANSHUMANCE to checkmate and monitor the movements of transhumance across borders.[12]

12. He designed strategy in partnership with the EU on irregular migration of Nigerians to Europe taking advantage of the well funded EU program on reverse migration for the training of stranded Nigerians in useful skills, especially the victims of human trafficking.

13. Integrated the main Ministry of Interior with the Agencies as part of the reforms to enable the civil servants be in tune with the operations of the Agencies.

14. He built a befitting office for the Minister, even he did not occupy it before he left, and the same time gave the old structure of building in the Ministry a face lift and refurbished.

15. He initiated the resettlement of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, who were displaced by Boko Haram insurgency. He did that in partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cameroonian government.[13]

Following his retirement in 2010, Dambazau went into politics, later joining the All Progressives Congress (APC). During the 2015 presidential election, he was the head of the security committee of the APC campaign organisation, he later lost out to be appointed National Security Adviser.[14]

• Criminology and Criminal Justice 1999.
• Military Law Terminologies 1991.
• Policing and Terrorism challenges and issues in intelligence 2004.

1.Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR).

2. National productivity Order of merit.

3. Distinguished Service Star.

4.A 2018 Hall of Fame Awardee of the College of education.

5. Health and Human service award by Kent state university Ohio USA.

6. Awarded the colonel pyar Lal memorial Gold medal for the best thesis at the National Defence College New Delhi India.

7. Ankrah Hall distinguished award at the Ghana Armed Forces Staff College.

Abdulrahman Bello Danbazau Is married with childrens.Hobbies include listening to music, watching documentaries,golf and scholarly research.He holds the traditional title of Barden Kano.

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