Binji Local Government Area of Sokoto State has recruited vigilantes to assist other security operatives in securing the area against bandits and kidnappers.
The Sole Administrator of the area, Wadata Muhammad Mai Kulki, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen.
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Mai Kulki, who was speaking on the measures taken to safeguard the people of the local government, said the council had refurbished one of the operational vehicles of the police in the area.
“We form a team of security agencies which has been going round our villages and towns to ensure bandits and other criminal elements are not getting a breathing space.
“And this measures is paying off, because all their informants in the area have been fished out and arraigned by the police,” he said.
The Sole Administrator, who also participate in most of the operations, noted that the council was given incentives, particularly to the vigilantes.
He commended the army and other security operatives in the area for responding swiftly to distress calls.
Mai Kulki, who emphasized the importance of knowledge in addressing banditry, noted that; “some people joined banditry because they are ignorant of its religious implication.
“Some of them are lacking the basic knowledge of Islam, thus don’t know the religious implication of killing an innocent life.
“It is because of this that we renovated many Islamiyya and western schools in our villages and embarked on a serious sensitization campaign about the importance of education to our lives,” he said.
According to him, the council also renovated dispensaries and Mosques among others.
