Insecurity: NSCDC introduces annual sports event to keep officers fit

To ensure physical fitness if personnel in overcoming the fight against insecurity, the leadership of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), has introduced an annual Inter-Directorate Sports Competition to be organised and coordinated by it’s Sports Unit.

Commandant General of the Corps, associate professor Ahmed Audi, stated that the competition was approved In a bid to build a united, virile and physically fit workforce that is ready to fulfill its mandates at all times.

A week-long maiden edition of the event , Audi pledged to ensure the event holds every year.

In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, (PRO), of the corps, Olusola Odumosu, the NSCDC boss said “This competition could not have come at a better time than now considering the enormous tasks we are saddled with by the government.

“I approved the competition because there is need to build a dynamic workforce that is united, virile and physically fit.

“I enjoin those that did not win medals to go back to the drawing boards, train well to perform better in the future.

Represented by the Acting Deputy Commandant General (DCG) Technical Services, Engr. Saladin Adigun, the CG encourage all participants to sustain the tempo exhibited in the competition with a view to improving your performances on the job and in future tournaments,.

Head of the sports unit, Ogbadu Austin, expressed confidence that the coming event will be bigger and better.

He added that, the sports unit is preparing for a more inclusive tournament for all Officers and Men of the Corps, and that the just concluded competition is a test-run of the NSCDC games coming soon.

The weeklong sporting event began on the 8th of May, featuring seven sporting events such as Football, Tug of war, Badminton, Table tennis, Chess, Scrabble and Dart, all of which were keenly contested for, the stated notes.