Men of the Nigeria Army on Thursday stormed the training camp of about 3000 people who were undergoing trainings for the Rivers State Neighbourhood Watch Agency, which is a local security intervention in the state.

The Army reportedly stormed the NYSC Orientation Camp in Nonwa, Tai Local Government Area where the para-military training was going on.

Suanu's Blog recalls that the idea of setting up the Agency by the Wike administration has been greeted with lots of controversies with many people alleging that Gov.Nyesom Wike intends to use the security outfit as his local militia group during the 2019 elections.

Meanwhile, the DG of the agency, Dr.Uche Chukwuma has condemned the attack by the soldiers insisting that they wont be intimidated or deterred. This is coming as the military described the training of the recruits of the Rivers State Neighbourhood Watch Agency as an illegal militia group training.

Source: http://www.suanusblog.com/2018/11/army-storms-training-calm-of-rivers.html?m=1

Wike budgeted 20billion Naira for the Neighborhood watch in the 2018 budget.... this is the end of the year and the Agency is yet to function... My question is what happened to the Allocation budgeted this year?... It’s not a rumour on the streets of Port Harcourt that the Neighborhood Watch are going to be carrying guns... Can we say this is Wike’s Militia Group?

Lagos State recruited their own Neighborhood Safety and Security Watch, nobody make any noise or try to stop them. Now Rivers State, a state in the Niger Delta that feeds the nation is trying to do the same thing but they are about being stop and some useless media houses are using the word controversial to describe them but didn't bother when Lagos did same. Are you guys saying Lagos State House of Assembly can make laws for Lagos but Rivers' own can't make laws for Rivers people?

You guys are looking for trouble and trouble you will get