Election Duty: NSCDC losses one personnel to road accident

…Restates that Corps is non partisan, apolitical

By Palma Ileye

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has lost one personnel, Corps Assistant II Abdusalam Roqeeb from Lagos State Command in a road accident that occurred on Friday 24, February 2023 at a sharp bend at Giri junction, Abuja, while five other personnel were presently receiving treatment in a hospital.

According to a press release issued yesterday by the Corps’ Director, Public Relations, CC Olusola Odumosu, the accident involved an NSCDC-branded vehicle which was conveying authorised identification tags meant for personnel on election duty in Lagos.

Following the unfortunate incident, the Commandant General, of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has commiserated with families of the deceased, Lagos State Command and the entire Corps.

Audi assured that, in line with his commitment to staff welfare, the Corps’ management will take very good care of the injured and bear full responsibility for their treatment to ensure their full recovery and safe return to their families.

However, it was expedient to correct the erroneous impression created by some online reporters, blogs and media outlets that the personnel involved in the accident was conveying election materials.

In the statement, the NSCDC, restated that, Corps is a non-partisan and apolitical organisation, hence, has no business conveying election materials as speculated in some quarters.

The items that were scattered on the road at the scene of the accident in the video shared online were election identification tags meant for Lagos Command personnel on election duty before the unfortunate incident and not ballot papers or PVCs.

The CG prayed for the repose of the soul of the gallant officer who died and soonest recovery of others in the hospital.

The officer has been buried according to Islamic rites.