The Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Bill for National Community Policing and Vigilante Protection Corps into law.
The group argued that the law would mainstream community policing in the country’s security architecture, and give its members greater room for participation in the fight against insecurity.
VGN’s Commandant-General, Navy Captain Umar Bakori (rtd), who commended the National Assembly for the swift consideration and passage of the bill, described the proposed law as a piece of legislation that conforms to global norms and standards.
Bakori, who briefed reporters in Abuja said: “Interaction aims to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari, to give his accent and sign this bill into law.
“From the Northeast and Northwest where Boko Haram terrorism, kidnapping, and cattle rustling is common to the Northcentral with kidnapping and banditry, Southsouth, Southeast and Southwest where kidnappings, street gangsters, cultism and other forms of criminality are prevalent, the Vigilante Group has consistently played a complementary role and provided the much-needed intelligence backbone to the police and the Nigerian Armed Forces.
