FG draws line against job racketeering in Fire Service, vows improved welfare

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The Federal Government has declared sweeping reforms aimed astatine restoring discipline, boosting unit payment and repositioning the Federal Fire Service arsenic a frontline exigency effect bureau successful Nigeria.

Controller General of Fire Service, CFG Olumode Samuel Adeyemi, who disclosed this connected Thursday during his maiden authoritative sojourn to the Abuja Metropolitan Command successful Kubwa besides drew the enactment against occupation racketeering.

Adeyemi who earned of occurrence consequences for defaulters, said firefighting is much than a salaried job, describing it arsenic a “sacred calling” to support lives and property.

“Fire work is not a occupation for you to beryllium earning salaries unsocial due to the fact that you are warring fire. It is simply a calling due to the fact that you are doing it to prevention lives and property. You prevention full communities, institutions and monuments. While radical tally distant from fire, firefighters are moving towards it,” helium told officers and men of the command.

The Fire Service brag pledged to propulsion for improved backing done first-line complaint status, stressing that helium had already met with the Accountant General of the Federation to code the matter.

He besides assured unit of amended welfare, announcing an summation successful the unit cooperative indebtedness ceiling from ₦300,000 to ₦500,000.

Adeyemi, however, warned against occupation racketeering and indiscipline successful the Service.

“You person to halt this occupation racketeering. I person drawn a line. If your sanction is mentioned oregon you are caught, you volition look the consequences. Discipline indispensable beryllium restored. You indispensable formal good and travel the formal codification for each day,” helium cautioned.

He promised yearly awards for best-performing officers, enlargement of occurrence work operational sum to Gwagwalada, and improvements successful operational capacity, including recruitment of much pump operators and measures to tackle conveyance mobility challenges.

Vowing to code infrastructural gaps, Adeyemi said; “Gone are the days erstwhile they volition telephone Fire Service and they volition accidental determination is nary occurrence motortruck oregon water. We indispensable alteration that narrative,” helium said.

Earlier, the FCT Controller of Fire, Mohammed Anas, described the sojourn arsenic historic, being Adeyemi’s archetypal to immoderate bid since assuming bureau fewer weeks ago.

He assured the CG of the Command’s loyalty and committedness to his betterment agenda.

Anas, however, highlighted challenges facing the FCT Fire Command, including inadequate pump operators, mediocre mobility for staff, dilapidated presumption infrastructure, and the request for grooming and retraining of officers.

With a unit spot of implicit 2,100 personnel, 7 occurrence stations, and 23 occurrence outposts crossed large authorities institutions successful the FCT, the Controller said the Command remains captious to safeguarding nationalist assets successful the superior city.

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