Niger State, Governor Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has vowed to provide pump action guns to vigilante groups in the state so as to fight back at armed Bandits in the state.
The Governor made this promise while having a meeting with over 200 vigilantes at Kasuwan Garba in Mariga Local Government Area of the state
The meeting is part his moral to vigilante groups across the state.
The local security personnel had complained to the Governor that lack of quality weapons was the major drawback in combating the daredevil gunmen
The vigilante groups complained that the bandits are heavily equipped with sophisticated weapons.
In order to address the issue, the Governor promised that henceforth, all vigilantes in the state will be provided with automatic pump action
He vowed that he would never be intimidated by threat from the bandits to disband the vigilante group in the state.
“We are not going to disband the vigilantes as a result of threat from the bandits, even when the Banditry activities in the state stopped, the vigilantes will still be there to provide security at the local government areas”
“There will be no dialogue but any of them that repent and surrender their weapons will be forgiven and we will compensate such bandits to be able to live a normal live in the society”.
The Bandits had demanded that Government must disband the vigilante group as one of the conditions for a ceasefire.
