The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), said it has put in place a task force to shut down all the unlicensed private security guards outfits, in Taraba, in order to check the wave of criminality in the state.
TBI Africa said Mr Aliyu Ndanusa, the Taraba Commandant of the corps, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Jalingo.
Ndanusa explained that the NSCDC had a statutory mandate to regulate the activities of private security guard companies, to ensure that criminal elements do not infiltrate them to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting members of the society.
“We have set up a task force to shut down all unlicensed private security guard companies in the state, to save lives and property.
“I summoned them for a stakeholders meeting and it was agreed that any security outfit that is not registered and licensed, should be shut down until it meets the required guidelines,” he said.
The commandant noted that the NSCDC would henceforth, be organising stakeholders meetings on quarterly basis, with the 25 licensed private security guard companies operating in the state, to ensure standard.
Ndanusa said the NSCDC would also offer continuous training to the operatives of the companies to ensure standards in the discharge of their duties.
He urged those operating illegal security companies to quickly approach state headquarters of the NSCDC ,to get registered and obtain license so that their operations would be monitored as required by law.
