Abolurin hands over NSCDC to Muhammadu

Former Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin, yesterday told his successor, Abdullahi Muhammadu Gana that he was handling a better Corps unit to him. Abolurin, who retired last week, stated this during the handover ceremony at the headquarters of the Corps in Abuja.

The former CG, who said he only spent 10 years against the allegation that he had spent many more years, said to the staff and journalists, “May l present to you before handing over, a newly appointed Commandant General of NSCDC, who is also part of us, Commandant General Mohammed Abdullahi Gana. “In summary, before l sign off, so you have idea of what l am handing over compared to what l inherited, l am handing over first of all physically, about 59, 000 personnel of the Corps compared to the 9, 000 l met in the office.

Also, compare to what we met, a rented apartment of three bedroom flat, which housed then National Headquarters, we are having a block of rooms here that are not less than 35 in number. Beside this, which we just called a liason temporary National Headquarters we have some structures which l am also handing over and to be physically sighted, a Civil Defence Academy in Sauka; a Civil Defence College of Disaster and Peace in Katsina; a Civil Defence College of Management study in Abeokuta, compared to when we came without a house. We now have houses, structures here and there commissioned and about to be commissioned.

“I will also as part of the handover records of our achievements as regards to implementation of our core mandate, numbers arrested, numbers of prosecution and numbers successfully arraigned and sentenced. Beside also, l am handing over mobilities of different types compared to the then two vehicles in our compound.”