NSCDC Lagos Command Cracks Down On Oil Pipeline Vandals, Deploys 1,500 Officers And Men For Eid-El-Kabir Celebration
The Nigeria Civil Defense Corps, Special Anti-Vandal Monitoring Unit, Lagos State Command, under the control of Commandant Eweka Okoro, has deployed one thousand five hundred (1,500) officers and men across Lagos State and its environs for the Eid-El-Kabir celebration and promised adequate security in the state.
This was stated in a press release by the corps CDPRO, Lagos State Command, ASCI Abolurin Oluwaseun, ma, fcss, amb, mpa, and anipr, Abolarin, in his press statement said. In line with the unflinching efforts of the Commandant General (CG), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), CG Ahmed Abubakar Audi, PhD, mni, to stamp out oil thieves and eradicate vandalism in the country, the Commandant General’s Special Anti-vandal Monitoring Unit, in collaboration with the Anti-vandal Unit of the Lagos State Command, has achieved another feat in the bid to clamp down on oil pipeline vandals, amidst other criminal elements in Lagos State.
ASCI Abolurin Oluwaseun,CDPRO, Lagos State Command,
The CG Special Anti-Vandal Monitoring Unit, upon receiving very credible and actionable intelligence, immediately clamped down on the suspected oil thieves and arrested nine (9) suspects (males) with two (2) short trucks containing suspected adulterated Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), also known as diesel, at about 01: 30 hrs., midnight, on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at Orile-Iganmu, in Lagos State.
The Commandant, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, Commandant Eweka Edenabu Okoro, msc, acma, cna, has also ordered the Intelligence department of the Command to intensify further investigation into the matter, in a bid to ensure that the law takes its full and rightful course.
In the same vein, Commandant Eweka Okoro has also deployed one thousand five hundred (1,500) officers and men to ensure adequate security and the protection of critical national assets and infrastructure (CNAI) during this year’s Eid-El-Kabir celebration in Lagos State.
The Commandant disclosed this to newsmen today at the State Command’s Headquarters (SHQ), in Alausa, Ikeja, through the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Assistant Superintendent of Corps I (ASCI), Abolurin Oluwaseun.
He further said that these efforts will help to rid the state of criminals and eradicate the nefarious activities of vandals and other elements that could be inimical to the economic growth and development of the state.
In a bid to ensure peace and tranquilly and the protection of CNAI, amongst other things, in Lagos State, before, during and after this year’s Eid-El-Kabir celebration, the PRO said, “The Commandant has also intentionalized and institutionalised new operational strategies in the State Command Headquarters, Area Commands, Divisional Offices, Right of Ways and other tactical formations of the Command.”
He went further to elucidate the significance of the operational guidelines to the Head of Departments, Head of Units in the Command, six (6) Area Commanders, twenty (20) Divisional Officers, thirty-seven (37) officers-in-charge (OCs) of sub-divisions and outposts, and Unit and Tactical Commanders.
He charged the officers to bring the right and appropriate impetus on board to protect all strategic locations, points, facilities, right of ways, oil pipeline installations, religious and worship centres, parks and gardens and all assets belonging to the Local, State and Federal Government of Nigeria, in the State, before, during and after the celebration, through the use of robust intelligence gathering, intensive patrols—physical and psychological), crime prevention mechanisms, Quick Intervention Squad approach (QIS), feedback mechanism, and collective security approach.
The Commandant, while congratulating the Muslim faithful in the state on this year’s Eid-El-Kabir celebration, warned the officers and men deployed to be on the alert as they discharge their duties without fear or favour of any kind. He also further charged the officers and men deployed to remain professional, competent, and respect the rights and privileges of the civil populace in the course of their duties, before, during, and after the celebration.
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