First Republic Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has lashed out at South-East governors, for the delay in setting up a regional security outfit.
According to the Sun, Amaechi advised the people of the South East, to defend themselves if the governors are not up to the task.
He made this call amidst growing insecurity in the country, urging Igbos to remain vigilant.
“If others are forming their own security organisations and the southeast governors feel their own security organisation is the one that will be supervised by the Inspector General of Police, it shows the kind of people and governments we have,” he said.
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Amaechi also claimed the governors were unconcerned about security outfit because they are protected.
According to him, when he was a Minister in the First Republic, he was only assigned one police orderly, “but today they move about with scores of policemen enough to form a police post or station in addition to members of Directorate of State Service (DSS)”.
Recently, the governors in the South-South region of Nigeria met in Asaba to discuss how to further curb insecurity across the oil-rich region, according to newsmen.
Governors of Nigeria’s Niger Delta (South-South) region on Thursday in Asaba, Delta State, announced that they would set up their own security outfit.
This comes after the creation of a regional security network known as Amotekun by governors of the six South-West states.
They made the announcement in Asaba, Delta state while discussing ways to curb insecurity across the oil-rich region.
They took the decision after their south-west counterparts established Amotekun as a regional initiative but agreed on it being converted to a state-based outfit after consulting with the federal government.
The governors also resolved to revive the Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Edo and Delta (BRACED) commission, “which will handle the formation of the local security outfit”.
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