Borno Trains 800 Youths For Civilian JTF

Borno state government yesterday took the battle to end the four years Boko Haram crisis, as it flagged off an orientation exercise for 800 youth vigilante members, popularly called Civilian JTF, that have been in the vanguard of hunting down members of the outlawed sect.

Flagging off the exercise, tagged Borno Youth Empowerment Scheme (BOYES), Governor Kashim Shettima said that government was gradually setting a stage by training volunteer youths, popularly called Civilian JTF, in partnership with the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) towards ensuring effective state policing.

Shettima said government regarded the youth volunteers, now BOYES, as the greatest assets of Borno because of their zeal and commitment towards ensuring the immediate return of peace in the state.

He explained that the aim of the BOYES is to “ensure our youths discover or rediscover their potentials, enhance these potentials with necessary skills, indoctrinate them into having a better organised love for their fatherland, make them conscious of what goes within and around them, train them to be conscious of the security of wider civilian population without taking laws into their hands so that they can lawfully help in policing their own communities.”

Continuing further, he said: “I am assuring you that, after this batch, we would again train another set of 800 youth and would continue so as to make sure that they are adequately compensated for their sacrifice for the peace of Borno state.

Speaking on behalf of the youth volunteers, Yusuf Garba expressed gratitude to the governor for his support to Borno youths, adding that since their camping at the NYSC camp, they have witnessed tremendous changes in their behavioural attitude in comparison to their old life style.

source: http://www.nairaland.com/1457402/borno-trains-800-youths-civilian