Gwamcee News
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has begun its nationwide basic training for the newly recruited personnel.
The training is following the successful documentation exercise of newly recruited personnel into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) which commenced at the beginning of February 2022.
Gwamcee news was gathered in a statement by the Corps’ Director of Public Relations, DCC Olusola Odumosu, released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP that before the nationwide training, which cut across all state’s formation of NSCDC, and the Abuja Capital Territory, all the recruits were subjected to full documentation in batches at the NSCDC National Headquarters Sauka, Abuja, where their details including biometric data were captured.
The statement states that at the state commands level where they are to undergo basic mandatory training before proceeding with career courses, the new entrants are required to physically present themselves for the already pre-planned programme coordinated by the National Headquarters.
The Commandant General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Ph.D., mini, earlier, directed Zonal Commanders and State Commandants to make adequate arrangements for the resumption of the training programme in preparatory to the commencement of the nationwide training.
The harmonised basic training is expected to progress simultaneously for three months in different locations across the country where they will be exposed to regimental orientation and the mandates of the Corps. Thereafter, they will proceed in batches for more training at the various training colleges of the Corps.
Recall that as part of strategies to upgrade the standard of the Corps to a world-class organisation through training, Dr. Audi had with the approval of the Ministry of Interior, inaugurated a 16-member committee made up of members of the academia, security experts amongst others to develop a standard curriculum for NSCDC Training Colleges.
Led by the Vice-Chancellor, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof SB Suleiman, the committee has already submitted the first draft copy of the curriculum to the Commandant General who expressed delight in the assignment and promised to set up an internal committee made up of senior officers to look into it.
The CG urged the recruits to show commitment and exhibit a high level of discipline during the training as this would help them to sharpen their skills for the task ahead which is directly linked to the security of lives and protection of critical national assets and infrastructure.
