Chief Of Army Staff Promises End Of Insecurity In Southeast
The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, said the insecurity ravaging the South East region will soon end.
Lagbaja, who was represented by the Deputy Director Operations Army Headquarters, Brigadier General Gabriel Olufemi Esho, said this on Thursday, during a meeting with the House of Representative Ad-Hoc committee investigating the killing and kidnapping in Umunochi Community in Abia state.
He assured that all security agencies are working round the clock to address the insecurity in the region.
According to Lagbaja, the threat of Kidnapping remains a potent security threat, especially in the two local government areas stating that, particularly in the month of July this year, the region recorded cases of kidnapping and attacks by criminals suspected to be elements of the proscribed people of Biafra (IPOB).
“Recently efforts of the Nigerian army through it’s Division in conjunction with other security agencies has diminished the treat of kidnapping.”
He however assured the committee that all effort will be made to bring the perpetrators to book and restore peace back to the region.
Assistant Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Philip Ayuba, said that the challenge the security agencies face in tackling the insecurity in the South East is lack of cooperation from members of the community where the acts are perpetrated.
Ayuba, who represented the Commandant General NSCDC, Abubakar Audi said this on Thursday, during a meeting with the House of Representative Ad-Hoc committee investigating the killing and kidnapping in Umunochi Community in Abia state.
“I want to state that we are out in synergy with other security agencies and have been able to look around and found out that there is a very good number off the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.
“We found that in that environment almost everybody has a weapon and there is the willful disposition of many communities to purchase locally made arms and there is lack of this cooperation by the community where we are trying to get information from them when they go there for manhunting for them to volunteer information of who and who are involved in that criminal act.”
