The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nasarawa State Command says it has trained over 400 personnel on arms bearing this year to curb activities of vandals in the state.
The Commandant of the corps, Lawan Bashir-Kano, disclosed this to newsmen in Lafia on Thursday.
Bashir-Kano said that the corps was determined to rid the state of vandals and other criminal elements.
He said the first batch of the arms-bearing personnel was trained earlier in the year in collaboration with the 177 Guards Battalion of the Nigerian Army.
He said: “We are poised to tackle head-on the rising cases of vandalism, especially of public installations by deploying about 200 armed personnel.
“Although, the cases have reduced drastically, it has not abated and that is why we are currently training another batch of 200 personnel in order to adequately man all public assets.”
According to him, the intensive training will last for about six weeks where the personnel will be drilled physically and psychologically to bear arms.
Bashir-Kano also said the command had recorded over 300 cases bordering on vandalism, fraud, theft and human trafficking.
The commandant said that 168 fraud-related cases involving over N60 million were resolved through the corps’ alternative conflict resolution mechanism with over N38 million recovered for complainants.
He said the command had prosecuted five cases, transferred two to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and some criminal cases were handed over to the Police for prosecution.
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