FCT NSCDC gets new commandant

The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has announced the redeployment of the Corps spokesperson, Commandant Olusola Odumosu as the new helmsman for the FCT Command.

Audi disclosed this in a statement signed by the new Spokesperson, Babawale Afolabi, on Friday.

The CG directed that “both the handing and taking over between the outgoing and incoming commandants be concluded by Tuesday, August 15, 2023.”

Odumosu takes over from Commandant Peter Maigari, who has been nominated and thus proceeding on a strategic course at the National Security Institute for the next one year.

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Audi informed that Odumosu’s tenure as Director of Public Relations of the Corps witnessed a lot of innovations that strengthens the Corps’ image with a corresponding increase in the level of social acceptability nationwide.

Odumosu also held the first-ever strategic communication workshop in 2022 for all Zonal Commanders, State Commandants and Public Relations Officers in all the Corps’ formations which paved the way for more strategic, innovative service delivery and partnerships with both local and international media.

Responding, the new FCT Commandant, assured that he would remain steadfast, hardworking, resolute and committed to the ideals and vision of the CG in transforming, repositioning and driving the Corps to an enviable height.

Odumosu reiterated that with the support of the Corp’s leadership, he is “ready to move the FCT Command forward by breaking new grounds through an unwavering commitment to the accomplishment of NSCDC’s mandate in the FCT.”

The new FCT Commandant, Odumosu is a Fellow of the National Institute of Public Relations, as well as the International Institute of Public Relations, London, UK, among others.

Also, Audi has approved the appointment of Chief Superintendent of Corps, Babawale Afolabi as the new Director of Public Relations for the Corps.

He charged the new spokesman to work hard like his predecessor and consolidate the legacies set by him in order to raise the bar of performance and transformation of the Public Relations Unit at the NSCDC National Headquarters and all formations nationwide.