Commandant General, Hunters Group of Nigeria (HGN), Amb Osatimehin Joshua, has charged members of the group to regard men of the Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as senior partners in the fight against crimes and criminality in the country.
Amb Osatimehin gave the charge while speaking at the end of a three-day intensive course and training for newly recruited personnel of HGN at the Civil Defence Training College Katsina in Katsina state recently.
The CG also charged the newly trained HGN personnel to be disciplined, hardworking and put in to practice what they have learnt in the course of their training.
He urged them to work in sync with personnel of other security agencies in order to curb the rising spate of insecurity in the North particularly and Nigeria in general.
He also reassured the hunters that the bill for the recognition of HGN by the federal government has passed a second reading at the National Assembly and referred to the committee on security and defence for legislative action.
Osatemin further called on the federal government to expedite action on the recognition of HGN as part of the nation’s security apparatus, adding that “the HGN personnel are not interested in becoming rich but to contribute their quota to the nation’s security.”
He urged the governors of the North-west to consider incorporating HGN into the various state security outfits just like the South-west has done in the case of Amotekun.
“I call on the governors of the North-west to emulate what the South-west did by incorporating hunters into Amotekun security network,” he added.
The hunters were drawn from the seven North-west states of Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, Sokoto, and Jigawa.