Over 10, 000 personnel deployed for COVID-19 containment -NSCDC boss

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, says all hands must be on deck in ensuring a resilient societal development.
He made this known at a one day training programme organized in collaboration with CLEEN FOUNDATION and the UK High Commission on lesson learnt on Covid-19 policing, taking a cue from the UK experience, at the NSCDC Headquarters in Abuja.
He said as a front line responder on COVID-19 containment and enforcement of guidelines and protocols in the country, the Corps has carried out a lot of sensitization and citizens enlightenment to encourage them to take responsibility in ensuring their safety.
He reiterating that over 10,000 personnel have been deployed to provide physical security at the various isolation centers across the country to ensure safety and security of patients and to help prevent some recalcitrant ones among them from trying to escape from isolation centers.
According to Gana, the programme is very apt and could not have come at a better time than now as the general health and well-being of personnel is paramount.
He also seizes the occasion to give kudos to all his personnel, especially those in the frontline of duty in this pandemic; from the baseline to the management level, some of whom have become victims of the infectious disease in the course of discharging their duties.
He emphasized that the training is to reposition officers to effectively discharge their statutory responsibilities during and after the pandemic in accordance with global best practices.
He appreciates the ceaseless effort of CLEEN foundation and the British High Commission for the numerous training programmes organized for the Corps and their concerted effort in addressing the pandemic.
He appealed for more partnership with the Corps especially in the provision of PPE and other materials useful to protect and keep officers and men safe while risking their lives at the frontline, enforcing the guidelines for preventing the spread and containment of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria.