Bauchi State Government has been supporting security agencies, including 10,000 hunters as part of efforts to fight insecurity and youths restiveness across the state.
The Senior Special Assistant to the State Governor on Security, Alhaji Umaru Aliyu Alkaleri, stated this while exchanging views with reporters in Bauchi today Sunday.
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He said “the hunters were registered across 20 local government areas of the state, and they assist in routine patrol with the support of security agencies.
Umaru, who is also the state Chairman of 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 recently they arrested 29 suspects over kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery in the state, and destroyed kidnappers camp between Dass and Tafawa Balewa local government areas.
Umaru said 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, “and we have hunters operating jointly with security in all the 20 local Government Areas of the state.”
He expressed concern over the way some prosecutors and lawyers connive together to change initial statements made after the arrest of a suspect with a view to facilitating bail grants or even set the accused free.
Umaru thanked the state Governor Bala Mohammed for distributing 70 patrol vehicles to hunters and security agencies which eased their 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 by the state government.
He also 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.
