Damcida was an ace in his field of work and that earned him and a few of his fellow Permanent Secretaries a reward for good service, exemplary leadership and commitments to nation building.
An editor of the Daily Times, Babatunde Jose tagged a group of administrators which included Damcida and others such as Yusuf Gobir, Ahmed Joda, Phillip Asiodu and Allison Ayide as 'super Permanent Secretaries'.
In 1971, he was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defense and became friends with officers such as Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo, two future leaders that later embarked on mass retrenchment that included the retirement of Damcida.
[1] In the 1970s, Nigeria began to implement a construction plan to build military barracks across the country to accommodate personnel expansion during the civil war.
The importation of the product resulted in the congestion of the Lagos port and government incurring payment of demurrage charges as a stipulated in the contract signed.
[6] Damcida transitioned back into the Private Sector a few years after a successful Civil Service career, through tapping into his network of already established contacts and school relationships.