Abductions: ITF organizes security awareness workshop for staff

NAN-H-105
Security
By Martha Agas
Jos, Feb. 17, 2017(NAN) Worried by the rising spate of abductions, the industrial Trust Fund(ITF) has organised a security awareness workshop for its staff to prepare them to secure themselves.

A statement signed by Mrs. Suleyol Chagu, ITF spokesperson, quoted its Director-General, Mr Joe Ari, as saying that the workshop was informed by previous encounters, where officers were abducted on duty.

“The services of the Fund is public-oriented with its officers always on the field and on transit, thus making them more vulnerable and potential victims of abduction.

“Abductions can be cruel and traumatic. The victims are usually tortured. We don’t want a repeat of what some workers have suffered,” the statement, made available to NAN on Friday, further quoted Ari as saying.

The statement restated ITF’s commitment to the development of skills toward diversifying the economy and creating jobs that would reverse the trend of unemployment, a factor believed to be prompting youths to see abduction as a form of business.

“ The workshop will equip the staff with a ‘third eye’ for vigilance,” it said.

Mr. Ibrahim Dan-Musa, the State Director, Department of State Security (DSS) in Plateau, who witnessed the training, commended the management of the Fund for the initiative “especially in view of the upsurge in cases of kidnapping.  (NAN)
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Edited by Ephraims Sheyin