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1. South-East Governors, yesterday, established a security outfit, EBUBE AGU, to curtail the rising insecurity in the region. Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, Dave Umahi, made the announcement on Sunday.
2. Nigerian Land and Air Army, during the weekend, eliminated scores of insurgents who stormed the Damasak town, Borno State in five gun trucks. Two soldiers were also killed in the process.
3. Unknown gunmen, yesterday, abducted a Catholic Priest, Rev. Prof. Izu Marcell Onyeocha at Ihube Community in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Orlando Godson Ikeokwu confirmed the incident.
Insecurity: S-East govs respond with Ebubeagu
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Govs playing politics with security of S-East zone Obasi
You can’t secure S-East without our participation Ejimakor
By Chidi Nkwopara, Chinonso Alozie & Ugochukwu Alaribe
Following the wave of attacks on public institutions, especially on police stations in the South East, the five governors of the zone yesterday stormed Owerri to take strong decisions on the issue of insecurity in the zone.
The governors launched Ebubeagu Regional Security, made up of all the vigilante groups in the zone,with headquarters in Enugu, to fight terrorism in the zone.
This came as an Igbo leader in Ebonyi State, Chief Jerry Obasi, attributed the delay in floating a regional security outfit by the governors to the preference of their political interests above the security of the people of the zone.
The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated Muslims on the dawn of another Ramadan (fast), calling it a renewed opportunity for the
Why The Southeast Governorsâ New Security Outfit (âebubeaguâ) Is Suspicious And Inoperable
By International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law
The Outfit Is Suspicious
Intersociety is strongly suspicious of the panicky and hurried announcement of the new security outfit by the Southeast Governors Forum. Coming when all hopes have been lost from state actor angles, forcing most citizens of the Region to place their hopes, expectations and solutions on the table of non state actors; we are very surprised to hear the sudden announcement.
Intersociety also doubts the sincerity and genuineness of the promoters of the new security outfit. It is doubtful, too, whether critical indigenous stakeholders and other interest groups were duly consulted and carried along. The new outfit is most likely a baptism name given to the 2019 illegitimate and unpopular “Community Policing” arrangement by the same Southeast Governors during which all the security chiefs that