CG NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi
Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has restated the need for synergy of stakeholders to secure schools across the country.
Audi expressed worry at the recurring of attacks on schools and abduction of school children in some parts of the country despite measures deployed by the corps.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of a capacity building programme for Safe Schools Response Team comprising personnel of the NSCDC, vigilante groups and operatives of private guard companies from the seven states in the North-West geopolitical zone held at Correctional Service Staff College Barnawa-Kaduna, Audi maintained that states and local governments in the zone should support the Safe Schools Project.
Audi, represented by the assistant commandant general of Training and Manpower, Mr David Abi, explained that “the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the establishment of the National Safe Schools Response Coordination Centre (NSSRCC), provides for such assistance.
“It is for this singular fact that I respectfully present on behalf of the centre the request for a kind consideration for allocation of an existing structure within each of the state capitals in the northwest to serve as the Safe School Coordination Centres,” he stated.