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After Amotekun, South-East governors establish regional security outfit

The name of the South-East security outfit is yet unknown.

Barely a month after the South-West governors established a security outfit code-named 'Amotekun', their colleagues in the South-East have come up with a similar arrangement.

Chairman of the South-East governors forum, David Umahi, said the region has formed its own security outfit to protect lives and properties of citizens in the area.

Speaking while hosting the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lasisi Adegboye, in Abakaliki, the state capital, Umahi said the forum has written to the Federal Government on the security outfit.

“Every region has their own peculiarities and we have formed our own joint security task force and we have written to the federal government and we are putting things together because we had a joint meeting with all the service chiefs and the then GOC,” Umahi said.

“So, we discussed and agreed on what we need to do to continue to give safety to our people in the south-east.

“No one will say that he will not be part of joint security because when people are kidnapped for example in Anambra State, they could be found in Ebonyi.

“So, we need that synergy to work together to give protection to everybody and here in Ebonyi, we are among the first in the federation to start our law on internal security and that is the Neighbourhood Watch and they have fantastically done very well.

“I am happy that the police, the army, the SSS, they are not ashamed to proclaim that our Neighbourhood Security Watch has done very well. And so, we can say that we are the safest state in the country and there is no joke about that," the Ebonyi State governor added.

Umahi, however, did not disclose the name of the outfit.

Meanwhile, a Commissioner in Ebonyi state, Stanley Emegha, had accused the South-West governors of "copying" their strategy with the establishment of Amotekun.

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