The Bayelsa State Deputy Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, Mr. Raymond Terwase Gaadi, is missing.
The Network investigation revealed that Gaadi has been missing for 15 days.
It was gathered that Gaadi was posted from the Enugu State to the Bayelsa State Command of the NSCDC to serve as the Deputy Commandant in April 2022.
He resumed in April and after taking over from the former Deputy Commandant, who was moved to head the Operations, he decided to travel to his former base to move properties to his home State, Benue, late October.
Sources said that he did not travel with his official vehicle and had no escort when he embarked on the journey while the flood was ravaging Bayelsa.
The Network gathered that fifteen days after the journey, neither the NSCDC and the family of the missing deputy Commandant has been able to establish contact with him.
It was gathered that the worried family contacted the Commandant of the Bayelsa Command, Mrs Lucy Fakoya, who also contacted the National Headquarters in Abuja about the incident.
On Monday, the Commandant addressed the men of the Command in the intensified search for a clue on the mission Deputy Commandant.
Findings by the Network shows that the NSCDC Bayelsa Command has alerted the Police, the Department of State Services and other sister agencies in the State to unravel the disappearance of the Benue-born senior officer.
The spokesman of the command, Mr Solomon Ogbere, confirmed that the Deputy Commandant left for Enugu to move his properties to Benue.
He said that since he left, the command had not heard anything from him and efforts have been made unsuccessfully to trace him.
“He actually took a pass from our admin department . He told our Commandant that he was going to Enugu carry his properties to Benue state because he was transferred from Enugu to Bayelsa State.
“That was the last time we heard from him.
“The command has made some efforts. We also called the Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corp in bayelsa to contact Enugu to find out if there is any accident and we are actually expecting an official statement from Enugu today.
“This is because we learnt that there was an accident that occurred in Enugu but we cannot actually say he is among because we do not know. We needed a piece of information from the sector commander in Enugu which by the special grace of God by today or tomorrow we will get it which will be made known to the public.
“If he is involved we will say so and if he is not what ever that comes out the populace will definitely know.
“He is our second in command, he is as important as the commandant so there is no way we will not take his matter as important.
“As I am talking to you now his phone is not going through. We actually placed a call we can not get him.
“According to his family, the last time they traced him his phone was at Tombia, which we are actually not aware of that. He took a pass that he was going to Enugu to move his property and this is official.
“Because of the flooding there was no official car that was assigned to him and there was no person that followed him because of the situation on ground.” He said
Curiously, the Family of the missing officer is suspecting foul play over the disappearance of Mr Gaadi.
The family represented by his elder brother Mr. Terkura Gaadi, claims that the late officer had some problem with his predecessor, who allegedly resisted handing over him.
“He was transferred from Enugu and he resumed work in Bayelsa on April. He was in the state until he got missing on October. He visited me in May and informed me that he had resumed his new posting.
“Actually, he called me on October 22, around 6pm, but I missed his calls, when I called back, I did not get any response from him, so it was around October 30 that his phones were totally switched off up till today. That was when we started sensing that something must have happened to him. I had personally spoken with the NSCDC commandant in Bayelsa State and she told me that they were making efforts to find his whereabouts.
“When he visited in May, he told me that he had problem, that when he resumed in Bayelsa State Command, somebody was refusing to hand over to him. He told me that in confidence. We have already written to the Inspector General of Police and Commandant General of NSCDC, they should find the whereabouts of our brother who came to serve the nation in Bayelsa State. We want to see him alive,” he said.
However, the Spokesman of the Command said that the position was untrue as there was no such resistance to hand over to him.
“There are some funny l issues around his disappearance that the previous person refused to hand over to him of which I have made an official statement. There is nothing if such.” He added
