The Chairman of South-East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, on Thursday, said there is no rationale for establishing a joint regional security network for the states in South East. The governor who dismissed the possibility of contributing security personnel from different states that make up the region to form the South East Security Network added that what is obtainable in the region is a Joint Security Committee, JSC, whose personnel train other local security architectures at various states.
While explaining that the security challenges at the South East States are peculiar and should be handled with different approaches, he added that there would be no land for ranching as contained in the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP, among the states in the region. He made the statements while responding to questions during the Channels Tv breakfast programme ‘Sunrise Daily’. “What we have in South East states in a Joint Security Committee which trains Neighbourhood Watch and the Vigilante groups or other local security architectures at different states in the region. If anybody tells you that there could be security personnel contributed from different states to form joint security for this region, it is not a possibility. It does not work even if the constitution permits it.
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