By Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto
Sokoto Government is set to employ 2000 youths into the Community Guards Corps in order to assist the police and other security agencies to combat crimes in the state.
Chairman Community Guards Corps in the state, Yushau Muhammad Ahmad Kebbe stated this while adressing newsmen shortly after Governor Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto signed the bill for the establishment of the Corps that would work hand-in-hand with other security agencies in the state to curtail the menace of banditry, kidnapping and rustling bedevilling the citizens in the state.
He said the signing of the bill into law has erased in the minds of doubting Thomases who thought it was for the government to while away time adding that the recruitment exercise has already commenced.
He further stated that when the screening is over the successful candidates would undergo two months extensive training especially on psychology,counter attack, chanelling of information to relevant sectors and other important, relevant information that lead to eradication of ill vices in the state.
“Hopefully, after the two months training they would be able to carry and operate weapons accordingly. They are not a subsitute to federal security architecture in the state, but just a complementary and it is going on the direction of military directives.
“Moreso, they are going to work as a joint task force assisting other security outfits as they are more conversant with the locations of operations under the enabling law so much so that whatever they are going to do would guided by law.
“To be frank with you, the number of security operatives we have in the state is not enough but the additional 2000 well-trained and equipped Community Guards, the difference would be clear”, the Committee Chairman Yushau Muhammad Ahmad Kebbe has averred.