Borno State government is
planning on employing over 5,000 Civilian JTF members as street vanguards.
Speaking during an interview with pressmen in
Maiduguri on Friday, the sole Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, BOESPA, Alhaji Nasiru Surundi, disclosed that the gesture was part of
the efforts of the state government to ensure healthy, safe and clean
environment as well as to create employment opportunities for the teeming
youths, adding that this will go a long way in curbing lawlessness among them.
“We are constantly challenged by the negative attitude of
residents towards environmental issues; we want to discourage indiscriminate
littering of the streets and open defecation, among other things.
“That is why we thought it wise to employ some of our youths as
street vanguards to assist us in cleaning shops, markets, streets and
government offices.
“Some of the youths have also been doing stop and search as part
of the measures to check Boko Haram insurgents and the state government is
paying them monthly.
“Many of them are also doing the jobs without pay and because we
don’t want to leave them idle, we will employ them as our sanitation vanguards
and pay them N10, 000 monthly’’, he concluded.
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