Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Wednesday, ordered the recruitment of more personnel of the Livestock Guards and local vigilante to help provide intelligence for conventional security agencies operating in the state.
Ortom handed the directive following the killing of three residents at Agboughul community in Makurdi Local Government Area by gunmen who wounded several others on Tuesday night barely three days after a similar occurrence in Tse-Angbande community.
He directed the Special Adviser on Security Matters to liaise with his Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs counterpart and the Permanent Secretary Bureau of Internal Affairs to effect the recruitment of more guards immediately.
The governor, in a related development, while being accompanied by the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mukadas Mohammed, and top government appointees, paid an unscheduled visit to the old facility of Nigeria Correctional Service (formerly known as Prisons Service) in Wadata area of Makurdi.
Ortom told journalists shortly after the inspection of the facility that government suspected that some criminal elements might be hiding within the facility and directed that all its inhabitants be profiled for necessary surveillance.
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