South-South leaders have thrown their weight behind the decision of their governors to float a regional security network amidst heightened insecurity
South-South governors met at Asaba, Delta State capital, on Thursday and resolved to create a regional security outfit like thePresent at the gathering were the Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum and Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; governors of Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri; Edo, Godwin Obaseki; Rivers, Nyesom Wike and Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom.
The Secretary-General of the Ijaw Youths Council Worldwide, Alfred Kemepado, said the regional security outfit would help provide maritime security and stop the criminal activities of pipeline vandals and oil thieves.Kemepado said: “The governors of the South-south should have come up with this type of security measures long ago to protect our water territory especially against pipeline vandalism and other oil theft activities.
“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.”
He said: “The governors should also ensure that this security outfit is not abused. It is easier for this outfit to be abused in this area because of the amount of light weapons littered in this environment. 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.
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