Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Dr Abubakar Audi Ahmed PhD(mni) have The been described as a bridge builder and a visionary leader with numerous innovative and transformative contents, who has everything it takes to rejig, revamp and REPOSITION the NSCDC but lacks adequate funding, necessary supports from both the Federal, State, Local Government, the general public and private institutions/individuals.
The Delta NSCDC Mouthpiece, Dsc Emeka Peters Okwechime who was a guest on a television programme in Asaba the Delta State Capital, described Dr Abubakar Audi PhD (mni) as an achiever who has achieved alots in the last one year since he assumed office as the Commandant General of the NSCDC. The emergence of Dr Abubakar Audi Ahmed as the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has not only transformed the Corps but has introduced many innovations and reformed the NSCDC into a 21st Century Paramilitary Institution in line with international best practices and standards even with the limited resources available.
The CG has brought honour and has restored back the lost glory of the NSCDC in the areas of Man Power, Staff Welfare, Research and Training, Promotions, Logistics, Death Benefits and Allowances amongst others.
Dsc Peters said, that the CG is committed and dedicated to do exploits in the areas of Man Power/Open recruitment, Staff Welfare, Improved Salary Structures, Foreign Training and Research Operational Vans, Officers Mess/Barracks, Clinic, Promotions, payments of all inherited and outstanding allowances, Purchase of Sophisticated Weapons, Safety Kits, Speed boat, gunboat among others if adequate and necessary fundings were released or provided for the Corps
The words on the lips of the personnel now is: “the sky is blue”, showing the pride they now have in putting up the blue uniform of the NSCDC. Audi has recorded landmark achievements that no Commandant-General of the NSCDC in recent past can beat. He has promoted synergy among Nigeria’s military, Police and paramilitary services. With a robust relationship with every formidable arm of government, extending to the diplomatic envoys and the international relations. Today, NSCDC can boast of more than 20,000 graduates and over 46 PhD holders in the service.
“NSCDC under you has undergone series of successful innovative surgeries in different composition of trainings, both foreign and local by virtually all security agencies in the country and this gives it a comparative advantage of versatility and competence to intellectually and strategically collaborate with any agency of government genuinely interested in the growth and development of Nigeria.
Dsc Emeka Peters added that since Audi assumed office in March 1st 2021, he immediately set out to change the narrative of the agency from an otherwise moribund organisation to a high-flying security outfit in the country through focused and qualitative leadership, thus, creating an enabling environment for an industrious and highly motivated workforce committed to quality service delivery, integrity.
“Audi has worked towards greater inclusiveness of the service in the security architecture of the country which is a pointer to his determination to make the NSCDC a world class organization.” If all things were equal financially and otherwise, Dr Audi would have done more exploits and recorded more successes, achievements in the shortest possible time
“Some of the achievements we have recorded under his administration’s even in the atmosphere of poor funding are: “Safe School Initiative under which there was an establishment, training and commissioning of a formidable, well kitted Female Squad to checkmate the menace of kidnapping of school children in the country and stoppage of any kind of threat or breach of security in our educational institutions. This effort has been replicated in all state commands across the country. And to ensure that this works, a vulnerability survey of all schools in the country was carried out to determine the number of schools that are prone to attack by terrorists and this has helped in developing strategies for schools’ protection in Nigeria currently.
The NSCDC Spokesperson stated that the welfare of her personnel under Audi has been improved upon by the placement of personnel on their respective appropriate ranks; fostering steps towards payment of staff appropriate promotion arrears: sanitization of the promotion process and successful release of 2019 promotion exercise and distribution of letters to successful personnel across state commands, thus scrapping previous cumbersome procedures and administrative bottlenecks.
“Another area of achievement of the present leadership is the Capacity Building which include roll out of operational vehicles and equipment to different departments and directorates; Commandant General’s merit Awards to outstanding personnel; establishment of the Rapid Response Squad; appointment of acting DCGs and administration of oath of allegiance for the first time in modern history of the Corps and launching of Gender policy document.
Dsc Emeka Peters added that another area where Audi has made intervention is the repositioning of the private guards security company department which he has sanitized, repositioned and restructured to serve in line with the globally acceptable standards because of the dynamics of crime and robust intelligence gathering function it performs.
“Audi is an experienced officer with antecedents of great achievements. There is no doubt that his emergence as the new Commandant-General has not only meet our criteria as a nation but has aided our efforts at combating insecurity and pipeline vandalism in the country. We want to wish him the very best as he continues to achieve giant strides in NSCDC.
