Shina Peller Presents Bill To Scrap NSCDC To Reps

Shina Peller, lawmaker representing lseyin/ltesiwaju/ Kajola/lwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives has proposed scrapping of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Peller proposed that the Nigeria Police Force to take over the duties of the NSCDC.

The lawmaker made the proposal to the House through the National Security And Civil Defence Corps (Repeal and Transition) Bill 2022, which passed first reading on Tuesday.

The bill intends to renounce the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (Amendment) Act 2007, create a transition management committee to superintend over the NSCDC, develop regulations and implement procedures for the transfer of assets and personnel of the corps to the Nigeria Police Force, and other similar issues.

In the bill, Peller stated that “fragmentation of security resources across multiple competing agencies is counterproductive.”

He added that the mandate of the NSCDC “has now become a duplication of the Nigeria Police Force,” while saying, “this has led to avoidable conflicts.”

Peller noted, “Every single function of the NSCDC can be done or is being done by the Nigeria Police Force,” while citing “waste of scarce resources,” stressing that the annual budget of the NSCDC is almost N100bn.

“The assets and personnel of the NSCDC will be absorbed by the Nigeria Police. So, no loss of jobs.”