As part of their 2024 International Civil Defence Day celebration, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Abia State Command Friday commissioned about 111 officers trained in various aspect of the Corp’s mandate.
According to the State Commandant, Usman Ishaq Alfadarai, on the occasion of the passing out parade of new recruits and the commomeration of the 2024 International Civil Defence Day with the theme, “Honor Heroes and Promote Safety Skill, they include new recruits – 36, the female squad – 25, and Safe School Corps – 50, which are the first batch.
According to the Abia State Commandant, “In his wisdom, the Commandant General, Ahmed Abububakar Audi has established a female squad specially trained on kinetic measures to further boost the efforts of the Corp’s to protect our vulnerable students.
“In addition to that, we intend to present the the National Programme on Safe School Initiative established by the Federal Government to ensure the security of our students across all the educational institutions across the country as launched last year by the National Command.
“We want to replicate same here in Abia State so that all the threat educational institutions are facing will be mitigated, while being coordinated by the centre”, he said.
He used the opportunity to disclose that his command is also monitoring closely private guards in the state to ensure they confirm to acceptable standard, stating that in the state, the Corp’s had organized a summit of all the private security practitioners operating in the state.
“We have done an assessment, reviewed their operations and identified their challenges and have already recommended solutions. I have reviewed the solutions and have tried to apply the solution taken at the conference to ensure they improve on their performances and they are being closely monitored and we are putting in place measures to ensure that every person that is recruited as guard by any of the companies, we train them, give them identification and license and continues to monitor them.
“This is so that we have a standard in their mode of operations so that together, we will have a greater security for Abia State and the nation as a whole”, he said.
