Blame Govs for Security Lapses in the S/East
From Ogbonnaya Ndukwe, Aba
A Systems Security Expert with the International Police Organization (Interpol), Sir Chikwe Udensi, has said the lackluster attitude of Governors of the Southeast states, towards setting up a regional security outfit to work alongside federal agencies, was responsible for the increasing rate of criminal acts in the zone.
He said the federal government had provided a lacuna through which the Ebube Agu security prevention and fighting scheme, proposed by the governors, would have been realized.
Udensi, said he will encourage communities to take charge of security issues in their land in liaison with the federal government, if elected as Abia state in 2023.
He noted that State governors will abuse the authority to manage state police by using such organs for individual and political power gains, if such were to be passed into law by the National Assembly and accented to by the President.
“I will encourage a 120% community policing process. “Governments have allowed such system to happen elsewhere and they are working.
” Let the police authorities put in place, community security base. Every community knows the criminals including drug dealers in it.
“So, the communities are in better positions to handle security issues in their domains.
He said State police would be used the way the governors and their political parties are using the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIEC).
” If you set up state police, the governors will use them as they are using state electoral outfits.
“When INEC conducts election, various parties, the PDP, APC, APGA, and others win, but when it is the SIEC, it is only the governor’s party that wins landslide.
“This is what will happen with state police.”
“Southeast governors are sitting down on their high horses and doing nothing.
“Ebube Agu is rubbish. The only place Ebube Agu is working is Ebonyi State.
Udensi, who is eyeing the Abia Governorship seat on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), said the PDP government, which had been in power in the state, had failed and should be flushed out by the electorate in next year’s elections.
He promised to revise the trend in governance and doing away with the archaic way of using motor park touts with sticks and other dangerous weapons to collect government revenue.
The APGA Chieftain, further said he will dismember the use of government workers to collect and dispose refuse, build new and rehabilitate dilapidated infrastructure and reposition the state’s education and healthcare sectors for proper management and productivity.