Abakaliki, Nigeria – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ebonyi command, has warned its personnel who recently underwent training on handling arms that it will not tolerate accidental discharge.
The State Commandant of the corps, Francis Nnadi, gave the warning in Abakaliki on Thursday while addressing a guard of honour mounted by the 83 trainees in his honour.
Nnadi charged the personnel trained at the 14 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, Ohafia, Abia state, to stick to all the rules of engagement.
“One should be more disciplined when armed and you must make vigilance your watchword.
“The NSCDC commandant general has a mantra of rejuvenating and reinvigorating the corps and all state commands are proactively striving to achieve this mandate,” he said in a statement.
The state commandant remarked that the command was collaborating with the state government to secure the Chuba Okadigbo airport,.Onueke.
“We also have the mandate of protecting critical infrastructure in the state as the arms training will be handy in actualising the mandates.
“We would be deploying the personnel across the state to effectively utilise their expertise.
“Criminals and non-state actors are raising their skills but we have to be far above them to check their activities.”
He expressed satisfaction with the skills exhibited by the trainees during the parade, describing such as “exceptional”.
“Most of them had earlier undergone special forces, counter-terrorism and other forms of large- and medium-scale trainings.”
The Ebonyi Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports, Richard Idike, congratulated the trainees and urged them to effectively practicalise all they learnt.
“The society is grappling with rising criminal activities and we need enhanced training for security operatives to check such.
“This training makes you unique and the state has benefitted tremendously from it.
“The state commandant has performed exceptionally and the increase in personnel performance is evident.”
One.of the trainees, Florence Nweke, thanked the state commandant for affording them the training opportunity and pledged to be more dedicated to duty.
The trainees bestowed an award of excellence on the state commandant who in turn rewarded the distinguished ones.
