The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, FUHSO, Prof. Innocent Ujah, has expressed the resolve of the institution to collaborate with the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVGs, on the security of staff and students of the university.

Prof. Ujah who made this known when he received the Zonal leadership of the security outfit at the institution in Otukpo, said the visit was timely given the recent cases of kidnappings in that part of the state. The Vice Chancellor noted that the university accords top priority to the security and wellbeing of its students, staff and lecturers and would ceaselessly continue to do so.

“That is why students of our institution stay in hostels provided by the university to ensure that their movement is  monitored for the purpose of their security and wellbeing,” he said.

He stated that the institution was already working with a vigilante group to ensure  security in the university noting, however, that the magnitude of the security need of the school was such that it would not hesitate to work with more security groups like the BSCVGs.

The Vice Chancellor urged members of the security outfit to ensure diligence and strict adherence to the guiding principles of the organisation in order to ensure successful discharge of their duties and responsibilities to the people.

Earlier, the Zonal Commander of the BSCVGs Mr. Williams Agada who lauded the Vice Chancellor for according a rousing reception to his team expressed joy at the level of developmental activities the coming of the institution had brought to Otukpo and its environs.

While praying for more strength and wisdom for the Vice Chancellor to enable him sustain the rapid transformation of the institution and take it to higher height the Zonal Commander noted that they were in the university to also tap into the developmental strides of school particularly in the area of security assuring that they were readily available for collaboration with the institution.