Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has engaged and equipped 150 Cameroonian vigilantes who are to join Nigerian hunters and vigilantes in hunting boko haram insurgents in parts of northern Borno.
The Cameroonians, from the Kesh-Kesh vigilante group, were presented with four surveillance vehicles and other fighting equipment on Saturday at a brief ceremony in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar local government area in the fringes of the lake Chad.
Borno’s commissioner for local governments and Emirate affairs, Sugun Mai Mele and a member of the Borno state assembly, representing Mobbar State constituency, Usman Lawan Moruma led team from the state government which presented the vehicles and other items needed to mobilize the Cameroonians.Governor Zulum has since August, two months after taking over the mantle of leadership, accelerated the recruitment of thousands of hunters and vigilantes from different parts of northern Nigeria. The step was part of the Governor’s multidimensional approaches that encompasses support for military, deradicalization and integration of repentant insurgents, investment in education to fight the boko haram ideology and use of social protection and creation of jobs to combat economic inducements used by the insurgents as part of recruitment strategy.
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