The Federal Government has expressed its desire to establish a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) national data-bank, starting from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps, with a view to deploying it in tracking Boko Haram terrorists, and other criminal elements in the country.
This was disclosed yesterday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, during a briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing 2nd Regional Security Summit in Abuja.
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