Bill seeking to scrap NSCDC is retrogressive – Shehu Sani

Former Senator, Shehu Sani has rubbished a bill at the House of Representatives proposing to scrap the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

The bill passed the first reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bill was read on the floor of the Green Chamber during Tuesday’s plenary.

Sponsor of the bill, Shina Peller, said the proposed legislation seeks to repeal the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (Amendment) Act 2007.

Reacting to this, Sani said such move was unnecessary and retrogressive and should be discarded.

The former lawmaker tweeted: “The Bill in the House of Reps proposing the scraping of NSCDC is unnecessary and retrogressive.

”The Civil Defence as a prime security agency have been playing a distinctive and complementary role in our security system.With due respect,that Bill should be rejected.”