South South decision makers adopt formation of regional security outfit

Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; governors of Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri; Edo, Godwin Obaseki; Rivers, Nyesom Wike and Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom.


South-South leaders have thrown their weight behind the decision of their governors to float a regional security network amidst heightened insecurity across the country.


South-South governors while addressing the press after meeting at Asaba, Delta State capital, on Thursday and resolved to create a regional security outfit like the Amotekun in the South West to deal with challenges of insecurity in the area.

Present 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.


While referring to the move as long overdue, the South-South leaders, who spoke on the initiative said it was a welcome development.


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.