The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has said that the deployment of high tech security equipment by the new leadership of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) will give impetus to security operations in the country.
NYCN President, Solomon Adodo, who stated this when he led his team on a visit to the Commandant-General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, in Abuja assured of the willingness of youth to key into the technology drive to ensure the security of lives and property.
Comrade Adodo expressed delight that the deployment of technology by the Corps since the assumption of office by Dr. Ahmed Audi is already yielding positive results saying, ‘for a long time now the vandalisation of oil pipelines and installations, Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s assets and railway sleepers which were an everyday occurrence is gradually becoming history’.
According to the NYCN President, the birth of technology at the NSCDC has led to training of thousands of youth to operate, maintain and interpret data generated from the surveillance technology. ‘This is a great way of transferring technology and ensuring that the operation and security of data generated thus far is exclusively in the hands of Nigerians and not expatriates as is common with most technological acquisitions’, he added.
Consequently, the youth body vowed to collaborate with NSCDC and other security agencies in building synergy to sensitize and train the Nigerian youths to be involved in the security of the country. He further berated faceless organizations trying to tarnish the good image of the NSCDC under the leadership of Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi. While acknowledging that the CG’s transparency and sanitization drive may be met with stiff resistance by those who benefitted from the old order of corruption, he urged him to remain steadfast in the spirit of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war.
“The need for the NYCN to collaborate with the NSCDC and other security agencies cannot be overemphasized. This is because the uninformed youth have overtime been used by unscrupulous elites to perpetrate ills in society. This negative trend must be resisted by all well-meaning Nigerians”.
“There is need to leverage on the grassroots structure that the NYCN has nationwide to train and mobilize youths in security watch. The youth if properly equipped can be involved in intelligence gathering which is critical in security operations. Effective intelligence will enable the agency to be proactive in tackling the current security challenges in the country. The Council have an army of youths at the localities and in all the 36 states and the FCT”, Adodo added.
In his response, the C.G of NSCDC reiterated that he is committed to to rejigging, revamping, reengineering, restructuring and rebuilding the agency with key priority on personnel welfare, training and deployment of cutting edge technology in battling insecurity.
He further hinted at the introduction of Local Youth Information Corp at the local communities for the purpose of intelligence gathering across schools in order to intercept invasion and kidnap activities by bandits which is another first in the history of civil defence operations in the entire world.
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