Posted by The Port Harcourt Telegraph on
Globacom, Nigeria's leading GSM outfit in conjunction with Tracktag and River Drill have launched a new security tracking system that could put paid to vehicle snatching activities and enhance the monitoring of transport fleets across the country.
Globacom, Nigeria's leading GSM outfit in conjunction with Tracktag and River Drill have launched a new security tracking system that could put paid to vehicle snatching activities and enhance the monitoring of transport fleets across the country.
The new system which allows truck and car owners to track their vehicles via satellite was demonstrated in Abuja Thursday after the NNPC which has evolved a public sector-private sector partnership agreed to put trackers on its new generation tankers in a bid to minimize theft or diversion of petroleum products meant for local consumption.
Under the deal, River Drill owned by Prince Tonye Princewill, son of the Amayanabo of Kalabari has the contract to acquire tankers fitted completely with trackers provided by Tracktag which for now is relying on satellite access allowed by Globacom for the NNPC.
The tracking system, Globacom and Tracktag officials stress, enables subscribers to trail their vehicles from the point of departure to the point of arrival.
They say that vehicles stolen enroute to their destination could be trailed with ease to wherever robbers take them to within Nigeria's borders, explaining that such vehicles could be demobilized by merely pressing a button installed at the control station of the user.
Addressing guests who included transporters and journalists as well as representatives of ANAMCO, manufacturers of tankers that would are carrying refined products to service points, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC disclosed that a total of 91 stations