The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has begun the selection process for the establishment of a special all-female squad.
The commandant general of the NSCDC Ahmed Audi, stated this while flagging off the selection process at the corps national headquarters in Abuja on Friday.
He said the special squad is one of his many strategies to reposition corps to a world-class organisation.
According to a statement issued by the spokesman of the NSCDC Olusola Odumosu, NSCDC, the commandant-general was quoted to have said: “The female squad which will compete favourably with their male counterparts in all ramifications will undergo three weeks intensive and rigorous training as well as capacity building programmes in one of our training colleges after the successful ones scale through the preliminary tests of competence, experience, psychological evaluation and comprehensive medical examination to determine their fitness for the programme.’’
“as they will be specially trained for physical and tactical manoeuvring, especially for special intervention and operations which will in no small measure help to address some of our internal security challenges.’’
He therefore appealed to the candidates to put in their best in their new assignment.
He noted that the corps was ready to provide the necessary logistics and minimal comfort during the training.
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