No plan to recruit youth to fight banditry – Gov’t

The Niger State government has announced that it has no plan to engage youths in the fight against armed banditry and other crimes in the state.

The government described it as baseless and untrue reports in some social media that the state government has concluded plans to recruit about 4,000 youths across the 25 local government areas of the state to fight the security challenge in the state.

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The Commissioner for Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affairs, Malam Abdulmalik Sarkin Daji, dismissed the report in Minna on Saturday.

Daji admitted that the state is faced with serious security challenges, occasioned by the activities of the armed bandits but said the government has no immediate plan to engage the youths in the fight against armed bandits.