Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,NSCDC, Abdullahi Muhammadu, says the Corps has deployed 2,300 Personnel to the North East to protect the liberated Towns and IDP Camps out of the 5,000 to the region requested for by Minister of Defence, and 1,000 to be deployed by November 1.

This assignment is in line with the Corps mandate in Disaster Management, Mitigation, Rescue and Rehabilitation.

Muhammadu made this revelation during the oversight function of the House Committee on Interior, ably led by its Chairman, Adams Jagaba to the NSCDC National Headquarters, Abuja

Jagaba noted, that the purpose of their visit to the Corps headquarters, and cautioned that the Corps Personnel should not jeopardize the confidence, faith, respect and trust the populace have for them, rather, they should continue to work hard to maintain their reputation.

He assured that the 2017 budget for the Corps will be better than the current 2016 budgetary allocation, to enable the NSCDC to embark on good trainings of the Corps Personnel.

Adams highlighted on Personnel who have paid the supreme price and the inability of their beneficiaries to get their entitlements on time, beckoning on the CG to act on the issue and have all the matters addressed.

Jagaba again, spoke on the need for Officers and Men to be properly motivated for the services they render to the country, maintaining that a well motivated Personnel will stop at nothing to deliver good services at all times.

The Commandant General posited that the Civil Defence is an International Organization of which the NSCDC is the number 66th registered member. In Nigeria, the Corps mandate enables the Agency to be the sole protector of Critical Infrastructure and National Assets in Nigeria.

The NSCDC also regulates the Private Guards Company (PGC), which the organization has succeeded in sanitizing and has transformed the PGC into a very professional sector.

The Corps helmsman reiterated that the Corps is unable to carry out certain responsibilities confronting it due to inadequate release of the budgetary allocation.

He therefore, appealed for the reversal of the Corps Life Insurance Policy of Personnel which earlier was managed by the NSCDC before it was removed to the Head of Service. There is delay in terms of payment of staff entitlement affected by occupational hazards, which before was not so.