Federal Government Thursday announced plans to create a ‘Special Force’ within the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to tackle the menace of cattle-rustling, herdsmen attacks in some parts of the country.

The government plan was announced by the Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) in Abuja when he received a delegation from the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) led by its Executive Secretary, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (rtd).

The Minister revealed that he was already working with his counterpart in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe in that direction.

He said: “It is necessary to partner with the CCC in the area of strategic communication because this ministry is the hub of public safety and basically what we do here is to enhance the ease of doing business in Nigeria.

“For people who are abroad, their major source of information is the media. If they keep reading negative reports about crisis in any part of the country, they will not come and invest because the impression they would have is that Nigeria as a whole is not safe.

“We are working with the Ministry of Agriculture to create a special force in the Civil Defence that will protect agricultural investments and products”.