Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, on Thursday signed the Community Guard Corps bill into law, noting that it will further help the conventional security agencies towards ensuring uncovering every hiding place of the bad elements.
The governor, while addressing members of the State Executive Council at the Government House before signing bill into law, said the law is 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 also that the setting up of this community guard corps is geared towards assisting the conventional security agencies
“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 visitors, strange faces with questionable intent and other oddity observed in their respective localities to the relevant authorities”‘.
The governor said he is optimistic that with the Sokoto Community Guard in place, bandits and kidnappers as well as all the bad elements will have no hiding place hence, “more valid intelligence about their whereabouts, operational strategies, collaborators and sponsors will be made known by our patriotic guards”..
He said: “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 further appealed to the conventional security agencies to see the Sokoto Community Guard Corps as partners in progress towards salvaging the state from the shackles of insecurity. Ali
