Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has charged men and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), on the need to live up to expectation by showing more commitment to the internal security of the nation.
Aregbesola spoke in Abuja on Thursday at the commissioning of 96 newly acquired operational and logistics vehicles by the NSCDC.
He said: “The federal ministry of interior plays an important role in managing the nation’s internal security.
“We do this in policy formulation generally, and in the supervision or superintendence of the four paramilitary agencies with us and these agencies are the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, and the Federal Fire Service, FFS.
“These agencies are in the forefront of the business of protecting lives and property and putting an end to insecurity in the country by playing a complimentary role with other security agencies like the Nigeria police.”
The Minister noted that: “With vehicular support and equipment as well as other supports given to the Corps, there is no excuse for failure than to deliver on its mandate.”
He reiterated that the inauguration of the vehicles was another leap in promoting NSCDC for better performance in tandem with President Buhari policy who is totally intolerant to anything that threatens the security of the nation.
He further explained that the support is to enable personnel of the Corps mobilise and arrive timely at scenes of crimes or events for improved service delivery.
The Minister who described the Corps as a Nigerian creation, warned personnel against being brutal but rather encouraged them to uphold civility and to engage the populace pursuant to its mandate of protecting Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, Anti-vandalisation, regulation of private guards companies, crisis and disaster management and Agro rangers etc.
He commended the leadership of NSCDC under Dr Audi which he described as focused and visionary which has resulted in significant milestones in the last one year through the protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, regulation of Private Guard Companies and Anti-vandalisation etc.
