Insecurity: South-East Governors Announce Regional Security Outfit, “EBUBE AGU”
South-East Governors on Sunday established a regional security outfit to tackle security issues in the region.
The governors at the meeting which was held in Owerri, Imo State capital announced the establishment of EBUBE AGU, which will have its headquarters in Enugu State.
Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, Dave Umahi, made the announcement on Sunday after a meeting in Imo State.
The headquarters of the establishment will be in Enugu State.
Umahi, in a communique he read, explained that EBUBE AGU will also monitor the activities of vigilante groups in member states.
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“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, it was resolved as follows:
To strongly and unequivocally condemn terrorism and banditry in any part of Nigeria, particularly in the South East. The meeting strongly condemns 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.
That the five South-East states are on the same page with the federal government on the issue of security challenges in the country. To this end, the meeting makes it absolutely clear that the Southeast will stand resolutely with the federal government to fight terrorists and bandits to a finish
That the political leadership in the South-East has 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.”
