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General News of Thursday, 5 March 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

South-South governors to launch security outfit

Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa

Governors of the six South-South states have announced plans to set up a security outfit.

The governors disclosed this during a meeting in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on how to tackle the issue of insecurity in their region.

Present at the meeting includes Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom, Douye Diri of Bayelsa, Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Godwin Obaseki of Edo.

Okowa who addressed newsmen revealed that the security outfit will help the governors battle insecurity in their various states.

He said: “I am sure you know the five governors standing here out of the six governors in the South-South; We have just finished our governors forum meeting.

“Unfortunately, the Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade, was held back in Abuja and could not make it to the meeting.

“We took very far-reaching decisions and I must thank my brothers for attending this meeting.”

He added that the region will work on the modalities for the creation of the security outfit.

“We took decision concerning the BRACED Commission which was established 10 years ago by our colleagues who were governors before we came on board.

“We have decided to restart the commission and ensure we provide the necessary logistics for it to function properly.

“The commission is to help us look into the issues of regional economy and the need to collectively develop our region instead of working as individual states.

“A lot has been done in terms of documentation in the past five years. We have agreed to restart the commission with the headquarter in River State.”

This comes two months after governors of the Southwest region established a security outfit called Amotekun.