Insecurity: FUT Minna engages 25 vigilantes

A PPARENTLY concerned about insecurity in and around the permanent site of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State, the institution has engaged the services of no fewer than 25 vigilantes.

The vigilantes operate under the close supervision of the university’s security outfit – all with the aim of checking incessant robbery attacks on students and staff living within the campus.

Professor Musbau Adewumi Akanji, who disclosed this to newsmen, also said that the university had acquired a property and donated same to the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Police Force to be used as a police outpost in the university’s host community, Gidan Kwano.

The decision to embark on these security arrangements, he said, was necessitated by the incessant attack on both staff and students.

The university’s host communities of Kpadna, Copa and, recently, Sabon Daga, had also come under attacks from bandits suspected to be fleeing Fulani cattle rustlers.

But the vice chancellor maintained that the security of lives and property of the 18,600 students of the institution remained very paramount to the university management; and it would implement every security measure deemed necessary within and around the campus.