3. Vigilante groups and crime control in Metropolitan Kano

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2005

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Vigilante groups as security outfits are mostly composed of volunteers, operating under the mandate of communal consensus to fight crime. As the waning capacity of the police could not curtail the rising trend of urban violence and crime, communal policing or vigilante were created to protect the neighbourhoods. According to a report cited by Baker,The helplessness of the Federal government in addressing the rising crime wave across the country brings to the fore the need for restructuring. A centralised...

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