By Ayodele Oni
Th Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps,(NSCDC), is collaborating with the Media in Ondo State to train Journalists on some rudiments of security.
This is to enable them to be able to identify and address security challenges they are confronted with in the course of practising their profession.
The State Commandant of NSCDC, Hammed Abodunrin, stated this during a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Correspondents’ chapel on Friday.
According to him, the current security challenges in the country have behove it on Nigerians, no matter their work to be security conscious and responsive to any threat.
“Everybody must be security conscious and that’s why there is need for us to upscale the security skill of everybody particularly the media who will be reporting so many things including the criminalities of people, political campaigns among others.
“So we want to see how we can be preventing it from happening. The essence of this training for journalists is for them to know what are the things causing insecurity.
“What are the possible things to do to save ourselves; what are the little skills we can display if we have attack, among others security tips for our benefits.
“Also we are going to look at some self-defence tactics. These are the things we all need as journalists in order to reduce the issue of insecurity in our society.”
The Commandant, was of the view that after the training, the beneficiaries should endeavour to share their experiences with their families and associates with a view to reduce rate of crimes in the society.
He described personal security as the best anyone could enjoy, adding that the more people are becoming security conscious, the less the people become the victims.
Promising to ensure that crime rate in the state is reduced to the barest minimum, Commandant Abodunrin disclosed that he was prompting up officers of the command to be able to respond to any distress call within five minutes.
“One of my focus here in Ondo State is quick response time and I have been discussing with the governor that I want my quick response time to any emergency to be within five minutes and I need equipment to do that. I need more power bikes that any of our men can ride to any place at any time for quick rescue.”
On some of the activities of the command since he resumed in the state, Mr Abodunrin said that some suspects dealing in adulterated diesel using the state as their transit route were apprehended.
“Our call mandate is also anti-vandal and in the last one month now, we have arrested seven heavy duty vehicles, three tankers that carried adulterated diesel.
“We have taken the sample of the diesel to the Department of Petroleum Resources(DPR) for proper verification and we are still waiting for the outcome.
“Four trailers loaded with cows, but inside which containers, loaded with 200 litres of diesel each were hidden, were also arrested.
Some suspects linked with the products are currently under trial,” Abodunrin said.”
