NSCDC deliberates on new strategies to tackle Electoral Violence and Insecurity

Ahead of 2023 General Election, NSCDC deliberate on how to maps out new strategies to tackle Electoral Violence and Insecurity…………urged officers to be committed to the collaboration with sister agency.Lucky Akra, Lagos

Ahead of 2023 general elections, the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, mni, held a quarterly CG’s Conference which brought together DCGs,ACGs,36 States Commandant and others to deliberate on how to deploy new strategies in order to address electoral violence and put an end to insecurity in the country.
The CG’s Conference was held at the Corps National Headquarters in Abuja today Friday,1st of June, 2022.
According to the press statement sent by the Director, Public Relations NSCDC,DCC Olusola Odumosu,the conference availed the management an opportunity to also appraise and present before the public, its performance in the last three months of the year.
According to Dr Audi, “We must begin to deploy new strategies in tackling the spate of insecurity bedevilling our land if we must effectively protect the masses, the electorates, electoral materials and the electoral umpires during the upcoming elections from any form of attack or danger in the course of their duties.

The CG commended the efforts and commitment of his officers which he says will help to deliver on their mandate.

He reiterated that, the situation we have found ourselves as a country calls for serious and appropriate measures at this critical time in our checkered history, stressing that, a secure and resilient electoral process is of vital importance to national growth.

“Let us therefore remain resilient and absolutely committed to working collaboratively with sister security agencies and other stakeholders while we remain agile and steadfast to manage the risks thrown up by events leading to the upcoming election and be combat ready to protect the citizens of this great country and secure our Critical National Assets and Infrastructure against new and evolving threats.

“As a security agency of government, we play very critical and vital role in checkmating and prevention of violence while ensuring effective protection in all the phases leading to the general elections to consolidate our democracy and democratic process.

“We must therefore be proactive and take necessary steps toward tackling the challenges of insecurity as we embark on this all important journey towards ensuring a free, fair and credible elections.

“Let me also use this opportunity to advise and remind Nigerians that security is everybody’s business. We must therefore rise up to assist security agencies with credible and actionable intelligence that could aid in checkmating and addressing the spate of insecurity in the Country. I want to assure you that every piece of information provided will be treated with utmost confidentiality. “When you see something, please say something,” says the CG.

He seized the opportunity to charge officers and men of the Corps to be at their best in the forthcoming Osun election by working in collaboration with other security and law enforcement agencies to checkmate any form of threat or disturbance to the peaceful conduct of the election.

In the same vein, the CG, announced the redeployment of 16 State Commandants as part of efforts to restructure and sustain the tempo of quality service delivery to the citizenry.

States affected in the redeployment exercise include Kwara, Jigawa, Abia, Enugu, Osun, Kogi, Adamawa and Kebbi.

The rest are Bauchi, Niger, Anambra, River, Ogun, Imo, Akwa-Ibom and Yobe states.