{"id":61016,"date":"2022-06-08T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=61016"},"modified":"2022-06-08T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:11:02","slug":"interior-minister-vows-to-bring-perpetrators-of-owo-church-massacre-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/interior-minister-vows-to-bring-perpetrators-of-owo-church-massacre-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Minister Vows To Bring Perpetrators Of Owo Church Massacre to Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.as he decorates five new DCGs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61018 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0042-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/>The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbosola, has decorated five new DCGs of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) who were promoted recently.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, he decorated four of their counterparts from the Nigeria Immigration Service at the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>While congratulating the newly decorated officers on their elevation, the Minister who is also the Chairman, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), charged the nine newly confirmed DCGs to see their promotion as a call to higher service and advised each of them to provide quality leadership in their various services by leveraging on their wealth of experience to play extra-ordinary roles in their agencies, noting that their acceleration has come at the most challenging time in Nigeria&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61019 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-110x94.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-420x360.jpg 420w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041-502x430.jpg 502w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220608-WA0041.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Aregbesola, threats arising from insecurity perpetrated by those he described as enemies of the country require experienced players like the crop of newly decorated DCGs to deal with the problem decisively and expressed confidence in their capabilities considering the local and international training and exposure they have had over the years, which, has bestowed on them the required knowledge and skills to solve the myriads of security challenges in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Aregbesola tasked the new Deputy Commandants General of NSCDC to go after the perpetrators of the gruesome murder of innocent worshipers in a Catholic church in Owo town, Ondo state, by playing direct roles rather than a complementary one in confronting the menace of bandits attacks and killings of innocent souls across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must put an end to all criminals playing with the intelligence of the Nigerian state, you have no excuse whatsoever not to perform going by the level of training you have received both locally and Internationally and I charge you to launch your arsenals against the perpetrators of Owo church attack, play a direct role and not a complementary role but synergize with other security agencies to fish the criminals out and let&#8217;s bring them to Justice&#8221;, the Minister said.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; 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He charged the newly confirmed DCGs to improve on their performance in order to achieve the vision and mission of the Corps,<\/p>\n<p>He commended the Minister for his leadership style and for always bringing all the agencies under his purview together to refocus their operational lenses through constant mentoring and support, noting that such action promotes cohesion, sense of belonging, determination for success and above all, motivation for all personnel of the agencies under the supervision of the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the DCGs were symbolically decorated with their new ranks by the Minister of Interior assisted by spouses and relations after their citations were read by the Board Secretary, Hajiya Aisha Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>DCC Olusola Odumosu Director, Public Relations NSCDC National Headquarters, added that the DCGs decorated for NSCDC were DCG Nnamdi Ikechukwu Nwinyi, DCG Bassey O. 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