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 who spoke from Umuahia, the Abia State capital during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, 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.”

When asked if the new security outfit would bear arms and wear uniforms, Governor Ikpeazu neither confirmed nor denied it.

The Abia governor 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 added.

Speaking further, Ikpeazu said the new outfit would be rural-based, adding “it is also going to be intelligence-based.

The governor also spoke on his administration’s strides in Abia, noting that the state since his assumption into office in 2015 “remains one of the safest states in Nigeria and we have statistics to show for that.

On his political future in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), under whose platform he was elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019, Ikpeazu reiterated his commitment to remain in the party.

His remarks come shortly after governors from the South East established a security outfit called EBUBE AGU as part of plans to checkmate the rising unrest in the region, stemming from an increase in criminal activities.

According to a communique put out by governors of the Southeast, the agency is to oversee and monitor the activities of vigilante groups in the region.

Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, Dave Umahi who read the statement after a meeting in Imo State, noted that the headquarters of EBUBE AGU security outfit will be in Enugu state.

festacman:
Ok

festacman:
Yes, it is shameful and inexcusable that the South East state governors have been reactive rather than proactive in creating a regional security outfit in response to emerging security challenges.

However, it is good news that finally they have met to set up a local security network EBUBEAGU accountable to the South East Governors Forum and their Houses of Assemblies as the ultimate regulatory authorities.

The truth is that it is just too dangerous for Igbo race to rely on ONE PERSON to use his personal militia to run rings around the South East States.

EBUBE AGU na eche agu!

Lexusgs430:
Ebube agu + Amotekun + Hisbar..........

What next.......

Why do we have a police force..........

Nigeria scatter scatter......

descarado:


Lexus, don't laugh, na your country o.

Lexusgs430:



Everything is just disjointed...... The hip is connected to the arm, whilst the nose is connected to the ass.......

Reference:


Nothing wrong with that. The LAPD is completely 'disjointed' with the NYPD. Let everyone take care of his peculiarities.

We seem unable to let go of central control, evidently a bastion of colonialism.

Nigeria has grown far too big and far too complex to be understood and handled from one office.

Abaman001:
The entire[s] Niger Deltans has agreed that Nnamdi kanu's head must be used to appeals the egbesu deity and ipob terrorists or her sympathizers if caught within the Niger Delta region will be burnt alive, this is the resolution reached today in a general meeting held in yenagua bayelsa state....so every ipob miscreants should be warned[/s].....

OnyeOlokoro:
As long as Ebubeagu doesn't interfere with ESN am fine with it

goatgoat093:

Stay off that expired Kai-Kai that you've been drinking, not good for your health and cognition.

Abaman001:


[s]Don't bring in ur madness into any south south states[/s]...

festacman:
The truth is that it is just too dangerous for Igbo race to rely on ONE PERSON to use his personal militia to run rings around the South East States.

Yes, it is shameful and inexcusable that the South East state governors have been reactive rather than proactive in creating a regional security outfit in response to emerging security challenges.

However, it is good news that finally they have met to set up a local security network EBUBEAGU which is accountable to the South East Governors Forum and their Houses of Assemblies as the ultimate regulatory authorities.

EBUBE AGU na eche agu! Yagazie!