Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu
By Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele
From the plethora of achievements, from the reduction of vandalism on critical national assets, enhanced regulation of private guards, robust inter-agency collaboration, high morale of personnel to capacity and manpower development, the story cannot be the same again at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
This is judging from the fact that the management of NSCDC has done so much in its little stay in office, much more than the previous administrations, transforming and repositioning the entire corps to meet with the best global standards as well as maintaining and sustaining the protection of critical national assets across the length and breadth of the country.
The introduction of the paradigm shift and the unprecedented conflict resolution mechanism put in place as saluted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is very fresh in the memories of Nigerians. That is talking about how the NSCDC, under the present management, has resolved over 15,000 conflict cases to date. This is judging from the fact that this has indeed broken new grounds as issues and conflicts are resolved within reasonable time-frame and the parties involved embrace peace on amicable settlement, proffered by the NSCDC operatives, applying conflict models and stimulating trends peculiar to the Nigerian culture, zone and secular nature.
Rising from an extra-ordinary virtual online executive meeting, the attention of the Coalition of Civil Societies and Media Executives for Good Governance in Nigeria (COCMEGG) has been drawn to the orchestrated, deliberate mischief and malicious ‘Letter to the Editor’ written by one Israel Abiodun (using a pseudo name) and published in a widely circulated national newspaper, The Nation on Sunday, June 21, 2020. The willful falsehood and deliberate blackmail, COCMEGG reliable investigations reveal, were concocted, fabricated and maliciously released to the media by a disgruntled element parading himself as a “concerned citizen,” so as to cast unwarranted aspersions and malign the present leadership of NSCDC. This was also to drag the present management and their hard-earned reputation into the mud.
For the purpose of clarity and fairness, COCMEGG believes and upholds the fact that it is important to state categorically that the sponsors and purveyors of the mischievous and malicious so-called “Open Letter to the President” are devilish and could only have emanated from the pit of hell. It is evident, from COCMEGG investigations, that these elements have taken it upon themselves and are hell bent on tarnishing the good work presently taking place at the NSCDC. In view of the foregoing, COCMEGG therefore diligently implores the general public to disregard and discountenance the highly illogical concoction that was served as an open letter to a seemingly upheld national daily newspaper.
As champions and agitators of transparency, good governance and accountability in the country, we at COCMEGG are aware of such deeply embedded surreptitious efforts and clandestine motives by disgruntled elements aimed at demonizing and blackmailing the present leadership of NSCDC. This is glaring because of the result of management’s avowed vision and mission to rebrand and reposition the NSCDC for effective service delivery. COCMEGG has watched closely the events of the past few days and monitored the court of public opinion.
COCMEGG has come, through this investigation, to realize that these malicious, deliberate and misleading narratives are willfully intended to pull down the hard-earned paradigm shift presently at the NSCDC. These are also aimed at tarnishing the unblemished reputation of a distinguished professional who has spent the better part of his life serving, protecting, and giving his all to the service of the nation.
COCMEGG has tried as much as possible not to join issues with the barrage of falsehood and malicious attacks on the management of NSCDC or engage in unintelligent rabblerousing in letting Nigerians know the succinct truth and nothing more. COCMEGG’s independent evaluation of NSCDC by its coalition partners and co-travellers in the boat of CSOs, shows alignment with corporate transparent leadership and good governance stance on issues paramount to the growth and development of NSCDC.
However, immediately, the present management assumed the mantle of leadership, he gave marching orders that it would no longer be “bus
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