South-East Governors Forum has established a security network called “EBUBE AGU” as part of plans to checkmate the rising insecurity in the region, stemming from an increase in criminal activities.
According to a communique issued by the governors, the agency will oversee and monitor the activities of vigilante groups in the region.
Speaking at the forum, the Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, Dave Umahi, who read the statement after a meeting in Imo State on Sunday, April 11, 2021, noted that the headquarters of EBUBE AGU Security Network will be based in Enugu State.
Below is the full communiqué signed by governors of the Southeast region:
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY SOUTHEAST GOVERNORS AND HEADS OF SECURITY AGENCIES AT THE END OF THE FIRST SOUTHEAST SECURITY SUMMIT HELD IN OWERRI ON SUNDAY APRIL 11th 2021
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 11, 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 South-Eastwill 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 terrorists from the zone.
- That the summit resolved that to achieve this, there is a need to galvanise all the relevant stakeholders in the South-East, the political class, the business community, the bureaucrats, and the intelligentsia to provide all necessary support to security operatives in the five South-East states to ensure total success in the fight against criminality in the zone.
5. That the heads of all the security agencies in the South-East have resolved to exchange intelligence in a seamless, effective new order that will help to checkmate crime in the zone.
- That to fast-track crime-busting in the South-East, the heads of security agencies have been mandated to draw up a comprehensive list of their logistics and material needs for sustainable success in the fight against criminality, for the immediate provision by the leadership of the South East.
- That a committee made up of security personnel, government officials, and relevant stakeholders be set up to coordinate and monitor the implementation of the South-East joint security platform.
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