As part of its resolve to promote neighbourhoods security and secure lives and properties of innocent citizens, Bauchi State Government has recruited a total of 10,000 hunters to complement efforts of other security agencies in the state in fighting insecurity and youths restiveness.
The disclosure was made by the Senior Special Assistant to the State Governor on Security, Alhaji Umaru Aliyu Alkaleri while exchanging views with reporters in Bauchi on the security situation across the state,
Umar Aliyu said that “the hunters were registered across the 20 local government areas of the state as they are assisting in routine patrol dislodging suspected bandits camps in the bush with the support of other security agencies.
Umaru Aliyu who is also the state Chairman of the hunters Association said that his members have been operating 24/7 by patrolling all nooks and crannies of the state in order to make citizens sleep with their eyes closed.
He said that recently, they arrested 29 Suspects allegedly accused of kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery and other crimes in the state just as they destroyed kidnappers camps between Dass and Tafawa Balewa local governments.
The Governor aide further said that the state office of the association at Inkil alone has about 200 operatives on 24/7 shifts waiting for possible distress calls from any quarter of Bauchi metropolis for a prompt response, he said, “we have hunters operating jointly with security in all the 20 Local Government Areas of the state.”
He, however, expressed concern over the way some prosecutors and lawyers whom, he alleged, connived together to change initial statements made after the arrest of a suspect with a view to facilitate easy bail grants or even set the accused free.
Umaru Aliyu thanked the state Governor Sen Bala Mohammed for distributing 70 patrol vehicles to hunters and security agencies which have eased their operational activities.
He described Bauchi as the most secured state within the 19 northern states in the country and attributed it to the support and encouragement of the state government.
He then appealed to the traditional rulers especially district, village, and ward heads to continue to give all necessary support and cooperation to security agencies towards making Bauchi the most peaceful state in the federation.
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