Kaduna govt trains 1,000 forest guards to tackle banditry

Kaduna State Government has commenced the grooming of 1,000 wood guards arsenic portion of renewed efforts to combat insecurity and flush retired transgression elements operating successful forested areas of the state.

The guards are expected to enactment information agencies by providing intelligence, monitoring wood activities, and reporting suspicious movements.

Speaking astatine the commencement of the grooming held astatine the Police College successful Kaduna, Governor Uba Sani, represented by his Chief of Staff, Sani Kila, urged the trainees to stay disciplined and nonrecreational successful carrying retired their duties.

He said the inaugural would fortify collaboration betwixt the wood guards and accepted information agencies, noting that it would heighten information and promote farmers to instrumentality to their farmlands.

According to him, the recruits were selected from communities successful known flashpoint areas and would beryllium deployed aft their grooming to enactment ongoing information operations.

“The radical of Kaduna State are ever acceptable to reply the call… astatine the extremity of the six-week training, these men and w...