{"id":336971,"date":"2021-04-08T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336971"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:09:07","slug":"50-arms-bearing-herdsmen-arrested-in-3-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336971","title":{"rendered":"50 arms-bearing herdsmen arrested in 3 states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), have arrested 50 arms-bearing herdsmen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe arrested 50 illegally armed herdsmen and realised that some of them are into cattle rustling and kidnapping,\u2019\u2019 Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, said on Wednesday in Abuja<\/p>\n

He made the declaration while presenting licences to private guard operators.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe armed herdsmen were arrested in Ekiti, Borno and Cross River states and in some other parts of the country,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Audi added that the arrest of the illegally-armed herdsmen shortly after his assumption of office was an indication of his determination to reposition the corps for optimal delivery on its core mandate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is part of our mandate to settle disputes between herdsmen and farmers and to also give some security protection to our agro-allied investments,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Audi stressed the need for synergy between security agencies, noting that the nation\u2019s security challenges could only be addressed substantially through intelligence sharing.<\/p>\n

He charged the private guard operators to ensure valuable contributions to on-going efforts at checking rising insecurity.<\/p>\n

Lamenting the security challenges, which, he said were asymmetric in nature, he assured that all would be well once relevant stakeholders adopted unity of purpose as their main objective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation is bedevilled with a very serious insecurity crisis, and that is the asymmetric warfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to deal decisively with this, you must synergise with all stakeholders in terms of credible intelligence,\u2019\u2019 he stressed.<\/p>\n

He read the Riot Act to the private guard operators and warned that their licences would be withdrawn if they engaged in unethical practice.<\/p>\n

Some of the unethical practices, he said, were the adoption of ranks or other accoutrement used by the military or other regular security agencies.<\/p>\n

Audi enjoined the operators to prioritise the welfare of their guards for optimal results. (NAN)<\/p>\n

(Vanguard News Nigeria<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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