Chidi Samuel| The South East region has formed its own regional security outfit to protect lives and properties, Ebonyi state governor and chairman of the region’s governors forum, David Umahi said on Thursday.
The governor did not, however, disclose the name of the outfit.
Umahi made the disclosure while hosting the general officer, commanding 82 division of the Nigerian army, Lasisi Adegboye, in Abakaliki.
According to Umahi, the governor has already written to the federal government on the development.
He said, “Every region has their own peculiarities and we have formed our own joint security task force and we have written to the federal government and we are putting things together because we had a joint meeting with all the service chiefs and the then GOC.”
“So, we discussed and agreed on what we need to do to continue to give safety to our people in the south-east.
“No one will say that he will not be part of joint security because when people are kidnapped for example in Anambra State, they could be found in Ebonyi.
“So, we need that synergy to work together to give protection to everybody and here in Ebonyi, we are among the first in the federation to start our law on internal security and that is the Neighbourhood Watch and they have fantastically done very well.
“I am happy that the police, the army, the SSS, they are not ashamed to proclaim that our Neighbourhood Security Watch has done very well. And so, we can say that we are the safest state in the country and there is no joke about that.”
The move by the South East goverors is coming barely a month after governors in the south-west launched Amotekun, the regions security outfit to combat rising cases of violence and crime.
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