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NSCDC to Bear Arms January 2008


Leadership (Abuja)


NEWS
31 December 2007
Posted to the web 2 January 2008

By Moses John


In its bid to ensure total eradication of vandalisation in Nigeria, officers
and men of Security and Civil Defense Corps would commence the use of arms by
January 2008.

This was the revelation of the comptroller general of NSCDC, Dr Ade Abolurin at
the corps annual event; festival of songs at the headquarter in Abuja at the
weekend.



Abolurin disclosed that the reason for the delay in the full implementation
since the corps was granted licence to move with arms was to ensure that only
credible defendants and those with non questionable characters would be allowed
to use the arms.

"First of all we don't want to be identified with criminals and criminal
tendencies , we have been able to make selection of the persons that would be
involved. Scrutiny is going-on everywhere with a view to identifying them and
having proper records of their background. We shall also train them locally
through the Nigeria Army and bring them centrally to be trained here and that
would commence in January".

The CG also commended men and officers of the NSCDC for their tireless efforts
in exposing the activities of vandals in the country, stressing that this has
brought about low queues in filling station.

In his words: "We thank God Almighty for everything, but we can only say we
have tried our best in recent times by exposing the activities of vandals in
ensuring the arrest of vandals and recovery of items. We can say there are
people in court under prosecution and also a lot of money that we were able to
save for government because of the cost of repairs and cost of replacement of
vandalised properties.

"Also, you can see that there is low queue in filling stations, no scarcity of
the product at all because of our crusade against vandals".


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