NSCDC PARADES ILLEGAL PRIVATE SECURITY GUARDS IN IMO

 
REPORTER: CHINAZO ILECHUKWU

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has advised business owners, who require the services of private guards, to ensure that only registered security companies are engaged to provide such services.

The Imo State Commandant of the Corps, Mr. Micheal Ogar, gave the advice in Owerri while parading a man with his four employees for illegally operating a private security company in the state.

According to Mr. Ogar, the law provides that anyone who wishes to operate a private security company must seek approval from the NSCDC before commencement to avoid security breaches.

The NSCDC Commandant warned that patronizing an unlicensed private guard company posed security risks to their clients and added that the suspects would be arrigned in court for violating the law regulating the business.

The owner of the private guard company, Mr. Christian Esomonu, who pleaded for pardon, claimed he had registered the company with NSCDC in Abuja and was awaiting his operational license.