There are indications that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) may have perfected plans to carry out mass recruitment of personnel secretly.

Though, the Corps had denied on several occasions that it was recruiting anytime soon, our reporter reliably gathered that employment process is actually taking place secretly.

Inside sources who wouldn’t want their names on print said some top officials of the Corps who are not comfortable with the sharing formula of slots were already having digging it out with the Commandant General, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu.

According to the sources, the Commandant General gave 10 slots to each of the 36 states commandants while the Deputy Commandant General (DCGs) who form part of his management team got one slot each. Hence, the in-fighting.

One of the officers said most of the names have been compiled while the Corps is set to issue out appointment letters soon.

“The letters would be backdated several months and payments likely to be made. The newly-recruited are to be deployed in the states,” the source hinted.

Several attempts to get the reaction of the Commandant General proved abortive as his number was not reachable. However, the spokesperson of the NSCDC, Emmanuel Okeh when contacted on the phone, denied any rift between the CG and the DCGs.

He also denied the allegation that the Corps was recruiting, stressing that the information was not correct as the Corps has only got approval from the Presidency to recruit in March next year.

When quizzed, Okeh did not however state the number of personnel the Presidency has approved to be recruited.

He pointed out that: “We hear a lot of information about recruitment going on at the Corps, but we don’t take it serious again because we have come to realise that it is the desperate move of people to get employment that had led to people alleging that the Corps was employing.

“We are neither employing now nor doing replacement.”

–Daily Trust