Sokoto Constitutes Committee On Community Guards

Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmed Aliyu, has approved the composition of a 25-member committee for the establishment of Sokoto State Community Guards, to support security agencies in tackling security challenges in the state.

The proposed community guards, a source hinted, may have been informed by the recent meeting held in Katsina State on the spate of bandits’ attack, kidnapping and other sundry crimes threatening the North West states.

The committee with five terms of reference is chaired by Col. Garba Moyi (rtd) with Yusha’u Ahmed Kebbe as vice chairman while Barrister Gandi Umar Mohammed and the director of security, Cabinet Office, will serve as secretary and assistant secretary respectively.

The terms of reference include, to advise on the modalities of the establishment, recruitment and training of personnel into the guards, to ensure a smooth take of the community guards and to sanitize the communities across the 23 LGAs on the establishment of the community guards and to recommend the composition, powers and functions of the community guards among others.

However, the governor’s approval as contained in a release issued by his press secretary, Abubakar Bawa, did not specify a time frame within which the committee would submit its report.