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Insecurity: Why We Chose ‘EBUBE AGU’ – Gov Ikpeazu
- EBUBE AGU will be rural and intelligence-based – Ikpeazu
Hours after the Southeast region launched its own joint security outfit codenamed EBUBE AGU, Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has explained why the governors took the decision.
Ikpeazu said the new security outfit would oversee and monitor the activities of vigilante groups in the region.
“Today we have come together to synergise and see how best we can protect lives and properties of citizens within this geopolitical zone,” he said.
“Security situation across Nigeria as it is today is dynamic. We are just trying to respond to our peculiar circumstances in the southeast.”
Read also: South East Governors Establish ‘EBUBE AGU’ To Tackle Insecurity
The Governor however neither confirmed nor denied if the outfit will bear arms or wear uniforms.
He explained that he and his colleagues from Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi and Enugu would cooperate to ensure that operatives of EBUBE AGU would be properly equipped.
“Ebube Agu would be a security outfit both in name, purpose and action. It will be properly equipped. I want to assure you that all the states in the southeast already has various vigilante outfits.
“In Abia, we call our own ‘the Homeland Security outfit.’ In Enugu, it is called the Forest Guards. But we want to call for a harmonised synergised system of action to be able to compare notes to be able to set up digital platforms that can respond to communication challenges,” he told Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
Speaking further, Ikpeazu said the new outfit would be rural-based, adding “it is also going to be intelligence-based.”
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