No fewer than 38 senior officers, including an Assistant Commandant General, have been dismissed from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps by the Federal Government for various infractions.
The dismissals, approved by the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board under the Ministry of Interior, were due to offences including gross misconduct, insubordination, and violation of extant laws.
The Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, Babawale Afolabi, in a statement on Wednesday, said in 2025, a total of “76 senior and junior personnel had various disciplinary measures meted on them to serve as a deterrent to others.”
He added, “As directed by the Civil Defence Correctional Fire and Immigration Service Board, disciplinary action have been meted out on some Senior officers as recommended by the NSCDC Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee: about 38 Senior officers including Assistant Commandant General have been dismissed on account of gross misconduct, insubordination and acts unbecoming of a superior officer according to the Public Service Rules.”
Babawale also outlined the actions taken against junior personnel. “After the sittings of the Junior Staff Disciplinary Committee on about 30 cases involving various degrees of gross misconduct, 20 personnel have been dismissed from the Service, three personnel were demoted by one rank, while seven personnel were issued warning letters as recommended by the NSCDC Junior Staff Disciplinary Committee,” he added.
He further stated that the Commandant General of the Corps, Prof. Ahmed Audi, had expressed the administration’s commitment to revamping and repositioning the corps through training and re-training of its operatives, noting that acts capable of tarnishing the image of the Service would not be tolerated.
He noted that the NSCDC boss had charged all officers and men to remain focused on discharging the corps’s statutory mandate.
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