Ebubeagu Security Outfit: We Reject The Fire-brigade Approach To Security Of Lives And Property.
By Nigeria Parents Forum, NPF
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(Being the text of a press statement made after an emergency regional summit of Nigeria Parents Forum held in Enugu on Thursday, 15th April, 2021 by the National Coordinator of Nigeria Parents Forum, Mr. Monday Eze)
1. Nigeria Parents Forum has noted the formation of the Southeast regional security network code-named Ebubeagu by the Southeast Governors Forum as announced on Wednesday, 13th April 2021 by the Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum and the Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi.
2. As lethargic as the approach of the Southeast Governors Forum to the sensitive issue of security of human lives and property has been, Nigeria Parents Forum finds the drafting of political supporters and hirelings as operatives of Ebubeagu Security outfit by executive fiat within 24 hours of Ebubeagu's formation as done by the Southeast Governors and revealed by their forum chairman in a television programme disheartening and unacceptable. Security is a sensitive matter and the governors of the Southeast should neither adopt half-hearted fire-brigade approach to it nor use it to settle debts of political patronage.