We Have Deployed Ebubeagu, Security Operatives To Troubled Areas - Governor Umahi Says

 

The Chairman of South East Governors' Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Engineer David Nweze Umahi says the newly launched Ebubeagu Security outfit has been deployed to quell pockets of disturbances in parts of the zone. Governor Umahi stated this while featuring on Channels Television Breakfast Programme "Sunrise" on Wednesday.

The Governor while stating that the Security outfit was already doing tremendously well in assisting other conventional security apparatus to combat kidnapping, banditry and other forms of crimes in the zone, noted that Governors of the Zone would ensure adequate funding of the outfit to guarantee optimum productivity.

The Forum Chairman also appealed for assistance from the Federal Government to enable States to domesticate the fight against insecurity according to their peculiarities.

"Security is number one before health and training because it is he who's alive which could talk about Education. We ought to commend Mr. President but we maintain to request that something assets which are available at the middle must be used to help States due to the fact the States are presently going via all kinds of challenges"

He confident that measures had been installed location to make sure that the Ebubeagu Security outfit might not be hijacked via politicians over time.

"We have launched the formation of the Security, we have already got security men and we are going to be expanding, we've got deployed them and they may be working and they're going to be effective, everyone has to perform within the confines of the regulation to make certain that it is not hijacked by means of politicians"

While commenting at the current assault on the people of Ohaukwu, Governor Umahi warned leaders of the Country to desist from what he defined as intense politics in order now not to plunge the kingdom into anarchy.

"The Country is going into intense politics due to the fact we've departed from the lifestyle of tough work and we ought to move lower back to the drawing board, we've deployed safety and we've deployed Ebubeagu there and we're going to ensure such attack does not show up again; we've got identified the flashpoints and we're interfacing with the Nigeria Police Force to set up a buffer area inside the region", he stated.