From Ankeli Emmanuel, Sokoto
Sokoto State governor, Ahmed Aliyu, Thursday 28 December, 2023 signed the state’s Community Guard Corps bill into law, noting that it will further help the conventional security agencies towards uncovering every hiding place of criminal elements.
The governor, while addressing members of the State Exedutive Council at the Government House before signing bill into law, said, the law was an actualization of one of the long-awaited measures of ensuring peace in the state.
According to him, his government will do everything humanly possible to restore peace and security in the state, adding that the setting up of this community guard corps is geared towards assisting the conventional security agencies
Governor Aliyu said: “These Community Guard Corps are not police. They are also not rivals to the conventional security agencies. They are only there to give useful information from their respective communities.
“Part of their responsibilities shall also include giving information about the presence of any vistitor, strange faces with questionable intent and other oddity observed in their respective localities to the relevant authorities”‘.
The governor noted that he was optimistic that with the Sokoto Community Guard in place, bandits and kidnappers as well as all the bad elements would have no hiding place hence, “more valid intelligence about their whereabouts, operational strategies, collaborators and sponsors will be made known by our patriotic guards”..
Governor Aliyu added: “Our commitment to the protection of lives and the properties of the people of the state remain firm.
“Therefore, the corps can only succeed with the support of all. As such we need all hands on deck”.
He appealed to the conventional security agencies to see the Sokoto Community Guard Corps as patners in progress towards salvaging the state from the shakles of insecurity.
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