The National Assembly made amendments to the Bill that reflects the establishment and core functions of the Nigeria Security and CivilDefence Corps.
This Bill seeks to reflect the establishment and core functions of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps which is a consequential amendment as a result of including the national security and civil defence as an item in the Exclusive Legislative List under the Second Schedule to the Constitution.
The #CivilDefenceCorps ensures the protection of critical national assets which shall not be limited to oil industry infrastructure, railways, solid mineral minefields, telecommunication infrastructure, power infrastructure, hydrological infrastructure, nuclear infrastructure, cattle ranches, but critical national assets as may be strategically declared by an Act of the National Assembly.
The #CivilDefenceCorps ensures the management of natural and man-made disasters, search, rescue and recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration of displaced persons and to help them recover from the immediate effects of hostilities or disasters and provide the conditions necessary for their survival.
The Civil Defence Corps shall-
(a) regulate Private Guard Companies as an industry regulator;
(b) register, monitor, supervise, sanction, deregister and determine the operational guidelines of private guard companies all over Nigeria as the nation strives to establish it as a viable tier of security;
(c) bear arms to enable it perform all or part of its functions; and
(d) train, regulate, supervise, oversee and support the activities of vigilante groups, neighborhood security organisations or agencies, and any other such groups, agencies or organizations with a paramilitary character enacted by an Act of a State Assembly for the purpose of enhancing the security of any state of the federation.
