Ado, who is the leader of the group in the area, said that every child of his son’s age already knew how to handle guns because of the incessant killings, raping and abduction for ransom bedeviling the axis.
Abdulakadir Ado, the father of a 10-year-old boy, who is a member of a vigilante group in the Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State, has explained how his son joined the group to defend their community.He added that the situation they found themselves made his son and others to join the vigilante group to fight banditry.
Ado said, “I am speaking to you as leader of the vigilante group in Safana, we have nothing to do than to appreciate God for the situation we find ourselves. We least expected to see this day, but thank God we were able to make it. “Everybody in this community has to be a member of the vigilante because whether they join or not when bandits invade the town they will kill everybody. That is why every child of my son’s age already knows how to handle guns.
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