SOKOTO – Gwabadawa Local Government Council, Sokoto state, said on Thursday that it spends N6 million on the payment of monthly allowances to 1,200 regular vigilantes it had recruited.
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The Chairman of the council, Alhaji Aminu Aya, said this in Sokoto during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Aya said that the council had also engaged 2,436 non-regular vigilantes.
“The Local Government Council is making arrangements to regularise the engagement of the vigilantes who are yet to start receiving the monthly allowances of N5,000 each,” he explained.
Aya said that the vigilantes were engaged to complement the efforts of the security agencies in protecting the lives and property of the citizenry in the area.
He said the vigilantes were deployed to various towns and villages in the 11 political wards of the local government area.
“We are also providing routine logistics support to the security agencies to enhance their efforts at safeguarding lives and property of the citizens.
“There is, however, the need for the people to provide intelligence reports to the agencies with a view to enabling them nip all crimes in the bud,” Aya said. (NAN)
