The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has said that the agency arrested 546 suspects and secured 51 convictions for various crimes cross the country between January 2022 and February 2023.
Speaking at the occasion of the World Civil Defence Day, the Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Ahmed Audi, said the corps during the same period destroyed 71 illegal refineries and 22 illegal oil bunkering sites as well as impounded 134 trucks.
On the theme of the celebration, Audi noted that with technology, risk assessment and crime detection has been made easy, adding that the corps was meeting up with challenges of modern crime fighting and management.
He said: “Prior to this time, disaster management, risk assessment, crime detection and prevention, protection of critical national assets and infrastructure like petroleum pipelines, electrical installations, communication equipment, roads, railways and others were relatively difficult but today, there is a significant improvement.”
