AMAC withdraws Marshall Guards from transport activities

The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) chairman, Abdullahi Adamu Candido, has directed the withdrawal of AMAC Marshall Guards from all transport activities within the area council.

A statement signed by his special assistant on media and public relations, Chief Dayo Lawal, indicated that the chairman made the decision in the interest of the public as a result of certain developments in the area council.

He said the Marshall Guards had since been redeployed to continue with their statutory functions of assisting the conventional security agencies in ensuring a secure society, adding that any person or group of persons found in AMAC uniform or otherwise carrying out any transport activities “is illegal and should be reported immediately as they are, therefore, restricted to perform only functions that are related to their statutory roles.”

The management of AMAC had deployed Marshall Guards as a special security outfit to complement the efforts of the conventional security agencies in combating crimes within the area council.

And in the course of their operations, they were to enforce traffic laws as they concern wrong parking and other traffic offences.