Audi reveals NSCDC’s challenges to Senate

Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has shared with the Senate challenges stopping the Corps from optimally protecting of Nigeria’s critical infrastructures.

Addressing Stakeholders at a public hearing seeking the establishment of Nigerian Mines Rangers Service on Thursday in Abuja, the Commandant-General of the Corps, Ahmed Audi said the, his organisation “has been trying its best to see that it is discharged of her functions very professionally but of course, we have some hindrances and challenges.”

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Mr. Audi said the Corps will need operational vehicles, drones, and more personnels.

Sharing the NSCDC’s experience in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, he said, “when Mining Marshals visited a site in Lokoja, they had to stop somewhere and use drone because they were told that there were bandits on the way. 

“They had to use drones to dictate before they now restrategised and then move ahead. So, we need drones. We need vehicles and in fact, we need personnels.”