Gov El-Rufai Inaugurates Vigilante Security Outfit

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The Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai on Friday launched a new security outfit called “Vigilante Service” with the aim of assisting security agencies to tackle cattle rustling and all other forms of criminality in the state.

The governor at the inauguration disbanded all other private vigilante outfits while empowering the new service on complementing the police and other security agencies in intelligence gathering and crime prevention.

In his remark, Dika Anto, the Chairman of the board of the vigilante service which consists of representations from the army, civil defence corps, State Security Service and traditional rulers gave Mallam El-rufai assurance of trying all their capacities to rid the state of hoodlums, thereby living up to their hypes.