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 Senate Approves Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers The Senate has approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country. The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Sen.Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North). The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories. Section 11 of the current Act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly

ADR: PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION DEPARTMENT ( PCRD ) TRAINS DIVISIONAL OFFICERS AND PEACE DESK OFFICERS IN LAGOS STATE COMMAND.(PHOTOS).#PRESS RELEASE.


NIGERIA SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS ( NSCDC ).

LAGOS STATE COMMAND.

PRESS RELEASE.

29TH JUNE, 2022.


ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ( ADR ) :


PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION DEPARTMENT ( PCRD ) TRAINS DIVISIONAL OFFICERS AND PEACE DESK OFFICERS IN LAGOS STATE COMMAND.


In line with the renewed vision of the Commandant General ( CG ), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), CG Ahmed Abubakar Audi, PhD, mni, to rejig, revamp, reposition and re - invigorate the Corps, he has swiftly, charged the Peace and Conflict Resolution Department ( PCRD ), at the NSCDC, National Headquarters ( NHQ ), Abuja, to train Divisional Officers and Peace Desk Officers, in all the State Commands of the Corps, on the timely need to scale up interventions, in the settlements of conflicts and disputes, communal clashes and conflicts between farmers and herders, by embracing Alternative Dispute Resolution ( ADR ) mechanism.

The one ( 1 ) - day capacity building titled, "Sensitization and Evaluation of Peace Desk Officers and Divisional Officers in Lagos State Command," which was facilitated by Superintendent of Corps ( SC ) Bisi Idoko, from the PCRD, NHQ, was held today, Wednesday, 29th June, 2022, at the Lagos State Command's Pavilion, in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

SC Bisi Idoko, the NHQ facilitator, in her lecture, said, "the amended NSCDC Act of 2007; Section 3 Subsection 1, U6, stipulates that the Corps shall "have power to arrange and mediate in the settlement of disputes among willing members of the public."

The Participants at the ADR workshop, included the 2I/C of the Command, Deputy Commandant of Corps ( DCC ) Maria Ihuoma, Head of PCR Unit, DCC Suleiman Oloyede, Deputy Commandants, Area Commanders, Divisional Officers and Peace Desk Officers drawn from various Divisions of the Command.

The Commandant, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, Commandant Eweka Edenabu Okoro, msc, acma, cna, also seized the event to charge the participants, at the workshop, in Lagos State Command, to key into the vision of the CG, so as to help bring lasting peace and settlements to conflicts and disputes, either in the area of interpersonal conflicts, which include ; marital / family conflict, land dispute, indebtedness, breach of trust, communal clashes and conflicts between farmers and herders, in our larger society.

E - signed.
ASCI Abolurin Oluwaseun MA, fcss, amb., mpa, anipr.
CDPRO LAGOS.
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