Crime & SecurityNewsBSHA Passes Vigilante, Youth Empowerment Agency Into Law

BAUCHI — The Bauchi State House of Assembly has passed the bill for the establishment of Bauchi State Vigilante and Youth Empowerment Agency, 2021 into law.

The move is to complement the efforts of security agencies working in the state as well as to promote neigbourhood and community policing.

The passage of the bill followed the adoption of the recommendations brought before the Assembly by the Committee on Security during its plenary on Wednesday.

 The Speaker of the House who presided over the plenary, Abubakar Y Suleiman after a voice vote on the bill, explained that the Committee used Kaduna and Lagos States who passed similar bills as a guide in which they visited the two States on study tours.

He said the report of the House Committee on Security on a Bill for a Law to establish Bauchi State Vigilante and Youth Empowerment Agency 2021 which was laid before the House in February but referred back to the Committee for some corrections after some observations were raised, was ready and will be revisited by the House.

According to the report, the Committee observed that the Bill was imputed by some far-reaching innovations that will assist the Government to tackle the problem of insecurity and minimize increasing youth restiveness due to lack of job opportunities and will assist the existing security apparatuses in crime prevention.

The Committee discovered that there is a need to borrow a leaf from the success recorded in the establishment and implementation of the Agency in those States and avoid the shortcomings experienced in the implementation.

Some of the recommendations by the House Committee on Security is that the Agency should have an Executive Secretary who must be a retired military or police officer not below the rank of a Major.

After the third reading, the House unanimously approved the recommendations of the Committee and voted for the passage of the bill into law.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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