THE Fderal Government has charged the corps to immediately develop a robust scheme for school protection across the country in order to ensure the safety of children everywhere especially within the school environs from the incessant attacks by kidnappers and armed men.
This came just as the new Commandant-General of the agency, assumed office.
Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola gave the charge in Abuja when he decorated Audi.
According to a statement issued by the ministry’s director of press, Mohammed Manga, Aregbesola said children are specially protected social category who are innocent at the same time vulnerable to external circumstances as to their own wiles.
The minister who expressed sadness over the incessant spate of violations and kidnappings in schools, urged NSCDC to work in synergy with other security agencies with a view to immediately restore peace and security in the country particularly within schools environment.
Aregbeslola further charged the leadership of the corps to develop a robust scheme that would not only check the menace in schools, but also to ensure the protection of critical national assets, such as pipelines, electricity pylons, stations and cables, telecommunication mast, cables and installations.
During his inauguration at the NSCDC headquarters in Abuja yesterday, Audi said his leadership would focus on deployment of modern security techniques aimed to reduce incidences of crime within shortest time.
Audi added that the Agro Rangers Unit of the corps would be fortified with adequate training aimed to protect farmers against criminal elements in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda of ensuring food security for the nation.
