The governor's of the South East coming out from a high powered delegation in Owerri today agreed to set up a unified security outfit to protect the South East for the security challenges that has been witnessed in the past few months now.
After exhaustive discussions on the current security challenges in the South East and with valuable contributions from participants at the first South East security summit in Owerri on this day Sunday April 11th 2021,resolved to strongly and unequivocally condemn terrorism and banditry in any part of Nigeria, particularly in the South East.
The meeting strongly condemned the burning of police stations, violent attacks on custodial centres with the unlawful release of inmates, and the killings including security personnel, natives/ farmers and headsmen.
The governor's also resolved that the five South East states are on the same page with the federal government on the issue of security challenges in the country.
This meeting is coming at the heels of making it absolutely clear that the South east will stand resolutely with the federal government to fight terrorists and bandits to a finish
The political leadership in the South East however resolved to bring together all the arsenals at their command, as one united zone, to fight and flush out criminals and terrorist from the zone.
They said that there is need to galvanise all the relevant stakeholders in the south east, the political class, the business community, the bureaucrats and the intelligentsia to provide all necessary support to security operatives in the five south east states to ensure total success in the fight against criminality in the zone.
The governors tasked heads of all the security agencies in the south east to always exchange intelligence in a seamless, effective new order that will help to checkmate crime in the zone.
The governor's hinted that the security agencies are out to keep track of crimnals in the south east, the heads of security agencies have been mandated to draw up a comprehensive list of their logistics and aterial needs for sustainable success in the fight against criminality, for the immediate provision by the leadership of the South East.
It was also resolved by the committee made up of security personnel, government officials and relevant stakeholders, set up to coordinate and monitor the implementation of the south east joint security platform be up and doing, while making it a statutory summit that will convene every quarter while its hosting shall rotate among the five south east states.
The meeting appreciated the formation of South East joint security outfit co. named Ebubeagu, to be Headquartered in Enugu and will be to coordinate vigilantes in the South East.
However, south east Governors requested the Acting IGP to stop the influx of IGP monitory units but to allow cps and state and Zonal commands to handle their cases. The Meeting also approved that the acting IGP and other security chiefs do invite the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and CAN to find out the reason for increasing insecurity of the South East . They also agreed that military policing in the South East should be adequately funded and become effective.
The governor's also agreed that open grazing has been banned and security agency should implement the ban. They also encouraged a peaceful coexistence of farmers and headers to allow Governors to succeed in the fight against criminality.