By Gideon Ayodele
A two-day Vigilante National Security Summit will hold in Abuja from Monday, November 19, 2018 to Tuesday, aimed at building capacities for vigilante officials and creating public awareness on their work in Nigeria.
According to the organisers of the event, Osjones International Services Ltd, a management consultancy services provider, in collaboration with the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), the summit will be declared open at 11am at M & M Events Centre in Abuja.
A statement signed by the CEO of Osjones International Services and programme coordinator, Oluyemi Samuel Olaiya, at the weekend, said the two-day summit is themed "Vigilante as integral part of Nigeria's security architecture: a core value for community policing".
Olaiya said there will be award presentations to friends and supporters of vigilante works in Nigeria even as he added that resource persons are expected from Police, Civil Defence and other security experts.
Minister of Interior, Abdulrahaman Danbazau, FCT minister, Mohammed Bello and the Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris are expected as special guests.
On the importance of the event, which is the second in the series, Olaiya said: "Vigilante is a community based security policing organisation saddled with the responsibility to scoop intelligence information for onward dissemination to other security agencies."
"The summit is to create public awaress on what vigilantes stand for. And further rekindle their knowledge on security activities and how to manage and disseminate intelligence information without distorting same.
"Essentially the event is for capacity building and to showcase the numerical strength of the vigilantes in Nigeria in order to correct the errorneous belief that it is for illiterates or dropouts," he added.
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