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Joel Nwokeoma
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The other day, after what seemed like an endless filibustering and pussyfooting, the five hapless South-East state governors made a dramatic U-turn and agreed to form a regional security network, codenamed, Ebube Agu, to enhance the security of their region. The name is a derivative of the Igbo proverb, Ebube agu na-eche agu, which literally means, “a leopard is guarded by its fearsome aura.” The Igbo totem is leopard, and not lion as erroneously held in many quarters.
Instructively, for months on end, the governors and their legislative counterparts turned deaf ears to the strident clamour by Ndigbo for a regional security network patterned after Amotekun, the South-West regional outfit and enact laws banning open grazing, the greatest enabler of herdsmen killing and kidnapping across Nigeria. But rising from a hurriedly convened South-East Security Summit in Owerri, the Imo State capital, last week, the governors a
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…Join forces to secure Igbo land, Ohanaeze tasks ESN
By Anayo Okoli & Ugochukwu Alaribe
South East governors yesterday, vowed to resist attempt by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to frustrate its new security network, code-named Ebube Agu.
This came as the Senate also yesterday called on the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the killings and kidnapping of citizens in Ebonyi State by alleged herdsmen.
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General Overseer of Christ Foundation Miracle International Tabernacle, Lagos, Prophet Josiah Chukwuma Onuoha, has said that the entire Southern part of Nigeria and the Middle Belt region should go beyond the establishment of Amotekun and Ebubeagu security outfits to be able to withstand future security challenges in those areas.
In an interview with Vanguard, the clergyman warned that the above regions must come up with better organised, more fortified and sincerely funded security arrangements or risk the consequences sooner than later.
According to him, he saw in the spiritual realm, heavy attempts to run over those zones, adding that governor’s and major political leaders in those zones should brace up for impending attacks.
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CHIDIEBUBE OKEOMA examines the implications of Easter Monday’s jailbreak and other attacks in Imo State
The Easter Monday jailbreak at the Owerri Correctional Centre and attacks on the Imo State Police Command headquarters in Owerri and a military base in Ukwuorji on the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway have remained the most vicious onslaught on the state and its citizens since its creation in 1976.
Gunmen had attacked the correctional centre around 1am and freed 1,884 inmates. Before attacking the facility, which shares boundaries with the Government House and the police command headquarters, the attackers had sung songs at the Government House roundabout for over 30 minutes.