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Civil Defence Corps to Bear Arms


Daily Trust (Abuja)


NEWS
12 November 2007
Posted to the web 12 November 2007

By Ahmed Abubakar
Dutse

Officers and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) will
soon begin to carry arms in accordance with the law which established the
corps, its Jigawa State commandant Ahmed Danfulani has said. Danfulani spoke at
a stakeholders' forum held for federal, state and local government
administrators, petroleum dealers and trade unions in Dutse, the Jigawa state
capital.

According to the Commandant, the NSCDC (Amendment) Act of 2007 gives the corps
the power to carry arms. This, he said, is to enable the corps carry out its
functions effectively and efficiently.



"For the purpose of efficiently carrying out (its) functions, the corps shall
maintain an Armed Squad, which shall be entitled to bear firearms and deployed
by the office of the Commandant-General", he said.

He listed the functions of the corps to include the maintenance of peace and
order, provision of security and monitoring services before, during and after
electoral exercises as well as protection of government infrastructure
throughout the nation.

He charged participants at the symposium to try to learn and understand as much
as possible about the corps, so that the corps and the general public may have
harmonious understanding anywhere its members are carrying out their duties.
The one day symposium was attended by civil servants, petroleum marketers and
trade unionists from different parts of the state.


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