Nigeria Has Lost 20 Rangers – National Park

The National Park Service, yesterday, revealed that Nigeria has lost 20 Rangers since its inception in 1991.
The Conservator-General, National Park Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, disclosed this at a pre-event news conference to mark the 2019 World Rangers Day in Abuja yesterday.
According to Goni, the World Rangers Day is celebrated round the world on July 31 to commemorate rangers killed or injured in the line of duty and to celebrate the bravery of those on the field.
He said that the day was also to celebrate the critical work rangers perform in protecting the world’s natural and agricultural treasures.
“Nigeria has lost 20 rangers and a few others have been injured or maimed since inception of the national park in 1991.
“In the last five years, 1, 860 suspects have been arrested for various offences; some have been prosecuted, jailed, served jail time, paid the fine, or warned and released in line with the provision of the national park service.
“The service however is not relenting in its efforts in ensuring the welfare of our Rangers in terms of training and capacity building, support of families of fallen heroes, prompt payment of salaries and welfare.
“This will not only boost their ego but make them to feel they are part of the system,” he said.
Goni said that Rangers all over the world were underequipped and underpaid and under-honoured and because they work in the remote areas media hardly captured their activities “and this is a major challenge’’.