Easter Celebration: NSCDC, FRSC deploy 2860 personnel in Edo

The Edo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and the State Sector of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, person announced the deployment of a full of 2860 unit crossed the authorities for the adjacent Monday Easter celebration.

DAILY POST reports that the 2 information agencies said the deployment of the unit is to guarantee capable information before, during, and aft the celebration.

The State Commandant of NSCDC Commandant, Akintayo Saidi Ayinla and his FRSC counterpart Sector Commander Cyril Zango Mathew disclosed this successful a abstracted statement.

The NSCDC and the FRSC statements were made disposable to newsmen connected Thursday, April 2, 2026, successful Benin City by Ogbebor Efosa, and Patricia Onwochei, Public Relations Officers of the agencies respectively.

In the statement, the NSCDC Commandant said 2000 unit were drawn from assorted specialised units of the Corps, including the Armed Squad, Female Special Squad, Counter Terrorism Unit, Disaster Management Unit, and the Commandant’s Monitoring Team.

He said the operatives person been strategically deployed crossed the 3 senatorial districts of the state.

He added that the unit are deployed to captious nationalist locations specified arsenic markets, recreational centres, highways, worship centres, and different susceptible points.

He said the locations would beryllium adequately secured to forestall transgression ...