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55 NSCDC Officers Graduate In Indigenous Language Courses

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 55 NSCDC Officers were today graduated from Indigenous Language.
News Rain Nigeria reports that not less than 55 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (, NSCDC), today, 6th, November 2020 graduate from the National Institute For Culture Orientation (NICO), Enugu.
The 55 Corps Officers were trained on indigenous language courses in Enugu, for the prior of two months.

55 NSCDC Officers Graduate In Indigenous Language Courses

The Officers were said to have undergone intensive training on three major Nigerian Indigenous languages, such as Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo.
While delivering his speech at the event, Corps Commandant Valentine Afrika, who is the Commandant of NSCDC Enugu State Command, said that without adequate understanding and interaction with the locals, providing security for them becomes difficult and near impossible.
Afrika stressed that it had become imperative due to issues of transfer of officers as demanded by the NSCDC job, that each officer must have the knowledge of indigenous languages handy.
He said, our job is basically information and intelligence gathering, which is mostly done by knowing the people’s indigenous language that will usher you into their cultural practices, which one must respect to work in harmony with them.
Afrika maintained that I must thank the executive secretary and NSCDC Commandant-General for giving this command this rare privilege to learn our indigenous languages and interact better with members of the public, gain their trust and cooperation.
While Speaking during the graduating event which was held at the NSCDC Command Headquarters, Enugu, the Executive Secretary of National Institute For Culture Orientation Mr. Mohammed Yahuza, stressed that the ability of security personnel to communicate in many indigenous languages would boost the fight against insecurity.
Mr. Yahuza, who was ably represented by Head, Enugu Office of NICO, Mr. Nnaemeka Nwajagu, noted getting acquitted with indigenous languages encouraged information and intelligence sharing between security personnel and the indigene.
Yahuza makes use of the event to appreciate the civil defense for such a cooperation to boost the capacity of its officers and men to understand and interact in many Nigerian languages especially the major ones.
He said I commend the officers and men that participated in the intensive language course for their seriousness, dedication, and hunger to learn more.
Yahuza noted that It is clear that indigenous languages are vital in the modern security of a vast nation like ours and to create that closeness required by security personnel to interact freely among the people of various localities of the country.
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