Spytech dismisses illegality tag
The management of Spytech Security and Guards Limited yesterday denied claims in media reports that the outfit was operating without a licence.
Last Wednesday, men of the NSCDC in Lokoja stormed the JAMB office and allegedly manhandled the security guards who work for Spytech, accusing them of illegality. The incident was reported in Daily Trust of yesterday quoting the Kogi state coordinator of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Daniel Agbo as saying that the National Security Defence Corps (NSDC) had written a letter to the board that Spytech Security was an illegal firm.
However, Business and Development Manager the guard company, Jennesse Haruna denied the accusation saying the company is fully licenced with the NSDC and operating a legal company with private guard licence number: NDSC/PG/008/00099, Category A.
She noted that the headquarters of the outfit in Abuja received the letters from JAMB about the NDSC claims and were in the process of sorting out the issues at the NDSC and JAMB head offices in Abuja, before their staff were attacked in Kogi State on Wednesday.
A copy of the company renewal of private guard company licence sighted by Daily Trust with approval of the minister of Interior for four years operational period, took effect from 13 October, 2009. It was signed by the Commander General of the NDSC, Ade Abolurin.
Meanwhile, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) chapter of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to probe an attack on its Kogi State office by men of the NSCDC.
Chairman of NASU Comrade Samuel Azaba and the Secretary of the union Comrade Stephen Ignatius in a joint statement condemned the incident, stating that over 100 “drunken armed operatives of the NSCDC stormed” its office… “to attack and molest our defenceless staff that were carrying out their legitimate duties. We are indeed shocked and lost over why such an attack was targeted at our staff.”
They said: “no one is safe again in the country if security agents like the Civil Defence would so brazenly attack defenseless civil servants who came to perform their constitutional duties in their offices. No wonder well-meaning Nigerians in the past rose vehemently against the proposal to arm the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.”