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By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC has condemned Monday’s protestation staged by a radical of demonstrators astatine its National Headquarters successful Abuja, describing the enactment arsenic “anti-government” and a menace to nationalist peace.
The Corps’ National Spokesman, CSC Afolabi Babawale, said the protesters, numbering implicit 50, stormed the entranceway of the NSCDC office successful the aboriginal hours of the day, chanting solidarity songs successful enactment of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained person of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB.
He noted that the Commandant General of the Corps, Prof. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, had earlier placed each commands and formations nationwide connected reddish alert up of the October 20 demonstrations.
The directive, helium said, was aimed astatine safeguarding captious nationalist assets and infrastructure from imaginable vandalism oregon disruption by hoodlums who could hijack the protest.
“Our formations and commands person been enactment connected announcement to upscale information successful the extortion of the nation’s captious infrastructure. Intelligence, undercover, and uniformed unit were besides deployed crossed the states and the FCT to guarantee information of lives and property, peculiarly since the protestation had already been barred by a tribunal order,” Babawale explained.
He reaffirmed the Corps’ committedness to its statutory mandate, which includes safeguarding captious nationalist assets and infrastructure, catastrophe management, monitoring of backstage defender companies, and extortion of farmers to fortify nutrient security.
The spokesperson warned that the Corps would not tolerate vandalism, economical sabotage successful the lipid and mining sectors, attacks connected its personnel, oregon immoderate enactment susceptible of disrupting nationalist peace.
“While citizens person the close to peaceful assembly and association, specified rights indispensable beryllium exercised wrong the bounds of the law. Where the tribunal expressly prohibits specified gatherings, caution and restraint are expected from liable citizens,” helium said.
Babawale besides called connected stakeholders to collaborate much efficaciously with the Corps successful protecting nationalist assets, adding that anyone recovered culpable during the protestation would look the afloat value of the law.
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