Sanyima Takes Over As Abia NSCDC New Commandant

The Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) began a new era on Tuesday with Muhammad Sanyinna as its new commandant.

Naija News understands that Sanyima took over the command’s leadership from the outgoing Commandant, Ayinla Olowo.

Addressing younger officers while delivering his inaugural address, Sanyinna vowed that the state’s security will improve under his leadership, assuring to fight crimes in the state to a standstill.

He assured the full implementation of the Commandant General’s zero-tolerance directives against all forms of vandalism of petroleum pipelines, power installations, telecommunications infrastructure and other critical national assets and infrastructure of government.

While stressing that security was everybody’s business, the new NSCDC commandant charged officers and men of the corps in Abia State to prepare for a season of productive engagements that would activate a period of a steady rise in the performance index/rating of the command.

He said: “Abia Command under my stewardship will reward excellent performance and diligent commitment to duty without compromise to professionalism, while those who indulge in truancy will have no choice than to take dressing as we will maintain an attitude of zero tolerance to indolence.”

Sanyinna also pledged to work with the state government and ensure a synergise with sister security agencies in the state to ensure that the relative peace in the state is sustained.

He solicited the support of the general public by providing useful information to security agencies in the state to enable them to serve better.

While delivering his handing-over speech at the command headquarters in Umuahia, the outgoing Commandant, Olowo thanked officers and men of the command for their support and loyalty to his administration and urged them to extend maximum cooperation to the new state Commandant to enable him to succeed.