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By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA – The Commandant General of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), Captain Umar Abubakar (Retired), has urged the Federal Government to assistance ceremonial designation and organization enactment to the organisation, saying its members tin lend importantly to efforts aimed astatine ending banditry and different convulsive crimes crossed the country.
Captain Abubakar made the entreaty connected Thursday successful Abuja during a one-day Strategic National Economic Security Summit, wherever helium addressed participants connected the relation of community-based information successful addressing insecurity nationwide.
He said that though members of the radical are unpaid volunteers, they person continued to assistance section communities successful responding to threats.
“We’re not lazy; we’re passionate astir security. We don’t privation to beryllium idly by portion bandits terrorise our communities. Even without pay, we enactment tirelessly to support our state safe,” helium said.
The retired naval serviceman stated that the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, which is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), has a rank of much than 1 cardinal radical nationwide.
He claimed that if the authorities provided ceremonial designation and coordination, the organisation could assistance neutralise the estimated 100,000 bandits operating crossed the country.
“If fixed the opportunity, we tin look them and neutralise the threat. We pb from the front, we don’t hold for the constabulary oregon the army. In fact, the subject understands our relation and has worked with america connected respective occasions,” helium said.
Abubakar besides noted that respective of the group’s volunteers had antecedently attempted to articulation ceremonial information services but were unsuccessful.
“Many of america were rejected, not due to the fact that we deficiency the passionateness oregon ability, but due to the fact that we don’t person the close connections. We person the thrust and the section knowledge. All we inquire for is simply a accidental to serve,” Abubakar said.
He maintained that the group’s operations complement those of existing instrumentality enforcement agencies and that authoritative designation would alteration amended coordination.
“We’re not asking for handouts—we’re asking for enactment and collaboration. Our extremity is to reconstruct normalcy and instrumentality Nigeria to a authorities of bid and security,” helium said.
According to him, the VGN’s proximity to section communities gives it entree to utile accusation and aboriginal informing astir emerging information threats.
“As the archetypal enactment of defence, we unrecorded among the communities we protect, giving america penetration into section terrain, language, and regular life. Our absorption should beryllium connected safeguarding existent targets; markets, schools, streets, places of worship, and concern centres, wherever mean radical unrecorded and work,” Abubakar said.
He added that portion the radical lacks precocious technology, its transportation to section communities remains a strength.
“Our spot lies successful our numbers, implicit a cardinal members surpassing immoderate different information bureau successful the country, We don’t request precocious technology; our top plus is our heavy transportation to the communities we serve,” helium said.
Also speaking astatine the event, Oba Dr Olu Adeoye, Chairman of Obas of Yoruba successful the FCT, said helium had been engaging applicable authorities, including the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and the Commissioner of Police, connected measures to code information challenges successful the territory.
He said respective meetings had been held with assemblage and nationalist leaders to tackle kidnapping and different transgression activities successful the FCT.
“We’ve agreed to enactment unneurotic to flush them out. Our programme is already successful motion, and by tomorrow, we’ll beryllium holding a strategical gathering astatine the villa. While these challenges are not unsocial to the FCT, we are determined to find lasting solutions,” helium said.
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