Forest guards to be deployed to insecurity hotspots — Ribadu

Forest guards to be deployed to insecurity hotspots — Ribadu

Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, has announced that newly recruited operatives of the Nigerian Forest Guard will be deployed immediately to insecurity hotspots across the country for intelligence gathering.

Ribadu made the disclosure on Saturday during the graduation ceremony of about 7,000 forest guards who completed three months of training, stressing that the deployment is part of efforts to strengthen national security and improve early intelligence response.