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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) kwara state command has disclosed that it will soon unveiled a female squad that would be in charge of protecting pupils in the schools.
The state Commandant of the Corps, Makinde Iskil Ayinla, disclosed this while addressing Journalists at the state headquarters of the agency on activities of the command in the year ended and new year.
“A Female Squad that will keep watch over schools to checkmate students’ abduction will be unveiled this month. We have trained some selected personnel on this and with the permission of the state governor, we will deploy them to schools this month”
“As part of preparation for this, we have data of all the schools, those that are fenced and those that are not fenced in the state. Added that the command has been holding various meeting with the relevant stakeholders including Parents Teachers Association (PTA) in the state to ensure that all schools in the state are highly protected”
Makinde, disclosed that the command have 27 offices, across the sixteen local government areas in the state.
Talking on discharging their Core-mandate, Makinde said that the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has given directive to all command to be highly brutal on vandals and oil theft this year as part of efforts to prevent economic sabotage and safeguard government installations and other properties.
On the success recorded in the year ended, Makinde, said that “the cases bordered on different offences; theft, assaults, lands disputes, rape, criminal breach of trust, burglary and debt among others were recorded. 31 were prosecuted with 6 convictions, 24 were still pending in court, 378 are under investigation and 534 were resolved through Alternative Dispute Resolution”
He, further disclosed that “3 cases were transferred to the appropriate agencies concerned, 50 were withdrawn after due procedure and over N5 million recovered,”
Added that “the Agro-ranger unit of the agency, in 2021 handled 76 cases on agro-allied matters and farmers/ herders clashes, and 63 of the cases were resolved”
Makinde, who reiterated synergy with other sister security agencies said “synergy among security agencies has been of great support to the success recorded. Noted that, It’s not out of place to have little misunderstandings among junior ones when they are in the field, but we always short it out at the monthly security meeting by the head of security agencies”
He also said that the agency will intensify efforts on the training of its officers, especially on how to handle weapon, intelligence and information gathering to further aid their performance.
Talking on how to curb incessant kidnapping, the NSCDC commandant called on the people to always carry along security agencies in totality by letting them know when ransom is about to be paid, to who and where.
“why we so much have kidnapping is because when there is any case, people would report the matter, but when the kidnappers demand for ransom, the people concerned would not carry along the security agencies again, instead of them to brief us about what is happening, once they get in touch with the victim family, we are expecting them to relate it with us, give us the phone number, let us see, if we can track, but, by the time they want to pay, nobody would hear anything again, even, if you are going to pay the ransom, let us know, to who and where, so that we would be able to analyze it, we need to look at action before, during and after, these are the only things that can assist us, but, it’s just the beginning that we always know”
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