South-South leaders have thrown their weight behind the decision of Governors to float a regional security network amidst heightened insecurity...
South-South leaders have thrown their weight behind the decision of Governors to float a regional security network amidst heightened insecurity across the country.
Most of them listed kidnapping, herdsmen menace, cultism, militancy, proliferation of light weapons, sea piracy, pipeline vandalism and oil theft as disturbing security challenges that such regional outfit should deal with. “The south-south governors should not just stop at the formation and the funding of the regional security outfit, they should also task oil multinationals operating in this environment who will be the major beneficiaries of this initiative to also contribute to a security trust fund as it is in Lagos to ensure that the security outfit is productive”.
“It should focus on the purpose of its creation which is to safeguard lives and properties, stop invasion of herdsmen, stop pipeline vandalism and other militant activities. A vocal Niger Delta activist and founder, Niger Delta Self Determination Movement , Annkio Briggs, said her letter to the Niger Delta governors dated February 19, 2020, triggered the governors’ decision to form a regional security outfit.
“What is true of Delta is true of all the South-South states. There is absolutely no state in the south-south that is immune deficiency from the rampaging and ravaging killer herdsmen and the security breach they bring with them”.
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