Internal Security: 29 Private security firms get new operational licenses
Published by Borderless Media
Following the approval by the Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi has issued Licenses to Twenty Nine (29) new Private Guard Operators.
In a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP by the Corps’ Director of Public Relations, DCC Olusola Odumosu stated that, “The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, mni, has issued 29 licenses as approved by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to new private guard operators.”
According to Odumosu, “At a brief ceremony for the issuance of the licenses at the Corps National Headquarters, Abuja, the CG charged the new operators to use their new operational licenses to contribute their quota to promoting internal security mechanisms of the nation.”
He reiterated that tackling the menace of insecurity in Nigeria requires collective and collaborative effort of all government and private security agencies, including all Nigerian citizens because the new wave of crime by criminals, bandits, terrorists and insurgents is assymetric in nature and therefore deserve serious confrontational approach.
Dr Audi maintained that private guard practitioners must collaborate with the Corps especially in the area of credible intelligence gathering as the nation is bleeding from insecurity at the moment, describing the situation as very disturbing and worrisome, as such, only timely intelligence sharing with the Corps as their supervising agency could enhance internal security.
He charged the new recipients to adhere strictly to the law guiding their operations, urging them to ensure prompt annual renewal of their licences in order to avoid being clamped down as a result of violation of extant rules by the CG’s special task force set up to supervise and monitor their operations and activities across board.
