Nigeria at 66: NSCDC deploys 3,000 personnel across Abuja

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Federal Capital Territory Command, has deployed 3,000 unit crossed the Federal Capital Territory arsenic portion of enhanced information measures for Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary celebrations.

The deployment was ordered by the FCT Commandant, Dr Olusola Odumosu, to fortify security, support instrumentality and order, and support lives and spot before, during and aft the day activities, the Command said.

In a connection issued on Tuesday and signed by the FCT CDPRO, DSC Monica Ojobi, the Command said unit from respective specialised units had been mobilised for the operation.

The units progressive see the Arms Squad, Female Strike Force, Crack Squad, Agro Rangers, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Explosives (CBRNE) Unit, and Counter-Terrorism Unit.

According to the Command, the information cognition volition absorption connected strategical locations and areas identified arsenic susceptible to information breaches crossed the nation’s capital.

The areas see buying malls, markets, centrifugal parks, amusement and recreational centres, arsenic good arsenic Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, CNAI.

The Command besides disclosed that its undercover operatives had been activated to transportation retired covert surveillance and stitchery intelligence, peculiarly astir locatio...