The Private Depot of Oil and Gas Marketers Association of Nigeria (PDOGMAN) has congratulated Ahmed Abubakar Audi on his one year in office as Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The Group in a press release signed by its Board of Trustees Chairman, Chief (Dr) Kolawole Adewoyin and General Secretary, Fred Ufuah described Abubakar Audi as an achiever who has achieved a lots in the last one year since he assumed office as the Commandant General of the NSCDC.
“Here is a man who has brought honour and glory to NSCDC.
The words on the lips of his personnel now is: “the sky is blue”, showing the pride they now have in putting up the blue uniform of the NSCDC. Audi has recorded landmark achievements that no Commandant-General of NSCDC has ever achieved. He has promoted synergy among Nigeria’s military, Police and paramilitary services. Today, NSCDC can boast of well over 20,000 graduates and about 47 PhD holders in the service.
“NSCDC under you you has undergone different composition of trainings by virtually all security agencies in the country and this gives it a comparative advantage of versatility and competence to intellectually and strategically collaborate with any agency of government genuinely interested in the growth and development of Nigeria.
PDOGMAN added that since Audi assumed office on March 1st 2021, he immediately set out to change the narrative of the agency from an otherwise moribund organisation to a high-flying security outfit in the country through focused and qualitative leadership, thus, creating an enabling environment for an industrious and highly motivated workforce committed to quality service delivery, integrity.
“Audi has worked towards greater inclusiveness of the service in the security architecture of the country which is a pointer to his determination to make the NSCDC a world class organization.”
“Some of the achievements we have recorded under you is: “Safe School Initiative under which there was an establishment, training and commissioning of a formidable, well kitted Female Squad to checkmate the menace of kidnapping of school children in the country and stoppage of any kind of threat or breach of security in our educational institutions. This effort has been replicated in all state commands across the country. And to ensure that this works, a vulnerability survey of all schools in the country was carried out to determine the number of schools that are prone to attack by terrorists and this has helped in developing strategies for schools’ protection in Nigeria.
PDOGMAN added that the welfare of personnels under Audi has been improved upon by placement of personnel on their respective appropriate ranks; fostering steps towards payment of staff promotion arrears: sanitization of the promotion process and successful release of 2019 promotion exercise and distribution of letters to successful personnel across state commands, thus scrapping previous cumbersome procedures and administrative bottlenecks.
“Another area of achievement of the present leadership is in Capacity Building which include roll out of operational vehicles and equipment to different departments and directorates; Commandant General’s merit Awards to outstanding personnel; establishment of the Rapid Response Squad; appointment of acting DCGs and administration of oath of allegiance for the first time in the history of the Corps and launching of Gender policy document.
PDOGMAN added that another area where Audi has made intervention is in the repositioning of the private guards security company department which he has sanitized, repositioned and restructured to serve in line with the globally acceptable standards because of the dynamics of crime and robust intelligence gathering function it performs.
“Audi is an experienced officer with antecedents of great achievements. There is no doubt that his emergence as the new Commandant-General has not only meet our criteria as a nation but has aided our efforts at combating insecurity and pipeline vandalism in the country. We want to wish him the very best as he continues to achieve giant strides in NSCDC.”
