Insecurity: Edo recruits 1,000 forest guards

From Tony Osauzo, Benin
The Edo State Government yesterday announced that it has recruited 500 forest guards to secure the state’s forests and farmlands.
The State Commissioner for Public Security and Safety, Festus Ebea, who announced this in Benin at a joint press briefing with the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua, and the Commissioner for Transportation, Saturday Uwuilekhue, disclosed that an additional 500 personnel would be added to the recruitment list soon, in line with a directive from the National Security Adviser to President Bola Tinubu.
He explained that offices for the guards would be located in Edo forests, with special attention to forests in ...