Barely six days to Christmas and eleven days to the new year, six thousand officers and men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,NSCDC, have been deployed to provide security during the Yuletide.

The Lagos State Command which announced this, said officers and men on leave had been recalled to ensure adequate security for people in the state.

Its Commandant, Tajudeen Balogun, said the officers and men would be deployed to strategic locations to watch over critical infrastructure, event centres, places of worship, government houses and black spots within the state during the period.

Balogun said intelligence officers of the corps in plain clothes had also been deployed to mount surveillance and gather intelligence information from different parts of the State.

He appealed to the members of the public to be law abiding and security conscious, urging them to report all suspicious movements or gatherings to the relevant authorities.