Following the unexpected presentation of the acting Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar to the World Civil Defence Day Celebration yesterday, the love lost relationship between the officers of the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), appeared to be over.
Until now, the two paramilitary outfits had been embroiled in an age-long mutual mistrust, over what the officers of the Nigeria Police often tout as the NSCDC’s intrusion into its statutory roles.
Meanwhile, Eight suspects who by all accounts operate illegal refineries in Obiakpo-Obuzoukwu, Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State have been captured by officers of the NSCDC.
Commandant General (CG) of the Corps, Dr Ade Abolurin told journalists that the suspects – Paul Agu, Udochukwu Akanwa, Chika Edet-Okon, Joshua Sunday, Maduabuchi Chukwu, Ifeanyi Adikibe, Uchenna Onyemetu and Chukwuonye? were caught by the combined team of Anti-Vandal and Rapid Response Squad of the command in Obiakpo-Obuzoukwu in Ukwa West on February 27.