Kwara to recruit 2,600 Forest Guards

Kwara State government plans to recruit 2,600 security guards under the Nigerian Forest Guards as part of measures to beef up security and ward off criminal elements in the state.

THE PRIME NEWS reports that the senior special assistant on Security, Alhaji Muyideen Aliyu, announced this on Monday during a sensitisation programme on security and voter‘s registration organised by the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held in Ilorin, the state capital.

Aliyu added that the government has implemented various measures to check security challenges and restore peace in the affected parts of the state.

He said plans are in advance to recruit and equip the forest guards, who will work in synergy with the security operatives to ward off crimes in the hinterlands.

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Works, Hon Abdulqawwiy Olododo highlighted the administration’s scorecards on road infrastructure in the last two years and refuted the claim in some quarters that most of the road projects were awarded to non-indigenes.