“The recent communication from the IGP to our governors on community policing composition is not in keeping with the agreement we reached with him during his last visit to the South East.”
They have therefore empowered the various houses of assembly in the zone to concertedly begin the enactment of state security laws without delay. Rising from their meeting in Enugu yesterday, the governors accused the IGP of reneging on the agreement reached with him during the South East Security Summit in January this year in same city.
According to the statement released during the event, officers from the region were to be posted to drive the initiative since “they know the terrain better than any other police officers who are not indigenes” to stem the insecurity in the area. Sources at the meeting claimed that the personnel in question were not from the region, a development that was said to have angered the stakeholders, necessitating yesterday’s gathering.
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