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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has powerfully condemned the ##FreeNnamdiKanuNow protestation held astatine its nationalist office successful Abuja connected Monday, branding it arsenic a menace to nationalist bid and an affront to lawful authority.
The National Public Relations Officer of the Corps, CSC Afolabi Babawale, successful a connection obtained by LEADERSHIP, said the early-morning objection progressive much than 50 individuals who gathered astatine the entranceway of its nationalist headquarters, chanting pro-Nnamdi Kanu slogans.
The Corps issued a stern informing to protesters and others who whitethorn beryllium readying to prosecute successful immoderate signifier of anti-government activity, stressing that immoderate effort to further undermine nationalist security, disrupt nationalist order, oregon vandalise captious infrastructure volition beryllium met with decisive action.
LEADERSHIP reports that Nnamdi Kanu, the detained person of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has agelong been astatine the halfway of specified agitations.
The connection further 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.
Babawale, who condemned the attempted penetration of the NSCDC office by the protesters, stated that the directive was aimed astatine safeguarding captious nationalist assets and infrastructure from imaginable vandalism oregon disruption by hoodlums who mightiness hijack the protest.
According to him, “Our formations and commands were enactment connected announcement to heighten information measures for the extortion of the nation’s captious infrastructure. Intelligence officers, undercover agents, and uniformed unit person besides been deployed crossed the states and the FCT to guarantee the information of lives and property, peculiarly since the protestation had already been prohibited by a tribunal order.”
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.
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 NSCDC 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.
“Let it beryllium intelligibly understood that the Corps volition not hesitate to enactment wrong the afloat grade of the instrumentality to forestall immoderate menace to the bid and stableness of the nation,” the spokesperson warned.
He added that those who chose to defy lawful directives oregon effort to instigate chaos nether immoderate guise volition beryllium held accountable, stressing that the epoch of lawlessness and impunity was over.
The Corps urged each citizens to respect constituted authorities and to transmission grievances done lawful and peaceful means, noting that nary idiosyncratic oregon radical is supra the law.
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