Yuletide: FCT NSCDC deploys 4000 Personnels to ensure Security, hitch free festival period in Abuja

By Joyce Remi-Babayeju

The FCT Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Dr. Peter Maigari, said that the has deployed 4000 personnel to ensure the festive period is hitch free and for protection of lives and property of residents.

Maigari explained that the officers were deployed to cover strategic areas like places of Worship, Recreational Facilities, Markets, shopping Malls, Parks, Gardens, and suspected flash points, to beef up security and protect Critical National Assets and Infrastructures, guiding them against unwanted activities of criminal elements, especially this festive period.

According to Commandant, the 4000 deployed are personnel from the Rapid Response team, Special Squad, Female Squad, Counterterrorism Unit, Armed Squad, Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive team( CBRNE) and the Intelligence Unit.

He charged them to be extra vigilant and to discharge their statutory responsibility with all diligence.

Furthermore, the FCT Command PRO, ASC I Okomanyi Comfort, stated that the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi and the FCT Minister Mallam Mohamed Bello has given him a marching order to arrest of violators of the law, vandals of Manholes and other critical National Assets.

” We will spare no effort in carrying out the order, there will be no slackness in safeguarding lives and properties in the territory” the Commandant affirmed; pledging his attentive and persistent effort for the continuous raids and arrest of criminal elements while guaranteeing the safety of lives and properties in the territory.”

Commandant Maigari, assured the certainty of peace and safety, disclosed that the second phase of the G7 operation has commenced in earnest to protect the FCT, and it’s bordering states comprising Niger, Kogi, Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa and Kaduna state.

He reiterated that the security operation is activated simultaneously in these places and with other sister agencies to take measures to secure and prevent miscreants from entering into the FCT.

Maigari urged residents to be security conscious, to support the security personnel with useful information and to report any suspicious movement or activities of individuals, groups, or individuals to the nearest security post.