{"id":79634,"date":"2021-04-12T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=79634"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:59:26","slug":"gunmen-attack-ebonyi-community-hours-after-southeast-governors-held-security-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gunmen-attack-ebonyi-community-hours-after-southeast-governors-held-security-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen attack Ebonyi community hours after southeast governors held security meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m87848\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Aliyu Garba, confirmed on Monday that gunmen attacked another community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area (LGA) of the state on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Garba told newsmen that the gunmen attacked Ebele village, Umuogodo Akpu, Mgbo in the LGA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gunmen attacked five communities in the state \u2013 Egedege, Obegu, Amazu, Nkalagu and Umuhuali on March 29.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A number of persons were reported killed in that attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Garba said: \u201con the effects of Sunday attack, it is yet to be ascertained. We are yet to get any report from there and I have not been around. I am waiting for the report.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mr Stanley Okoro-Emegha, Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, also said he was yet to get details of the attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThey said it was communal crisis, while others said it was herdsmen who carried out the attack, but we do not know the people behind the attack yet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe cannot say exactly what happened although we heard about the attack this morning (Monday).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNobody has called to say somebody died or property destroyed, but we shall find out.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cRight now, we do not know who is responsible,\u2019\u2019 Emegha said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Governors in the southeast rose from a meeting in Owerri on Sunday where they deliberated on rising wave of insecurity in the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the end of the meeting, they jointly endorsed the formation of a region-wide security organisation tagged \u201cEbube Agu\u201d (fear of a lion).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The\u00a0 governors and heads of security agencies in the region signed a communiqu\u00e9 to maintain the joint security outfit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The communique read in part: \u201cafter discussions on the current security challenges in the southeast and with valuable contributions from participants at the security summit in Owerri, it was resolved as follows:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cTo strongly and unequivocally condemn terrorism and banditry in any part of Nigeria, particularly in the Southeast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe meeting strongly condemned the burning of police stations, violent attacks on custodial centres with the unlawful release of inmates, and the killings including security personnel, natives\/farmers and herdsmen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat the political leadership in the southeast has resolved to bring together all the arsenals at their command, as one united zone, to fight and flush out criminals and terrorist from the zone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat the heads of all the security agencies in the southeast have resolved to exchange intelligence in a seamless, effective new order that will help to checkmate crime in the zone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat to fast track crime-busting in the southeast, the heads of security agencies have been mandated to draw up a comprehensive list of their logistics and material needs for sustainable success in the fight against criminality, for the immediate provision by the leadership of the southeast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat a committee made up of security personnel, government officials and relevant stakeholders be set up to coordinate and monitor the implementation of the southeast joint security platform.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe meeting resolved to maintain a joint security vigilante for the southeast, otherwise known as Ebube Agu.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In attendance were governors of Abia, Okezuo Ikpeazu; Anambra, Willie Obiano; Enugu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Ebonyi, Dave Umahi; and the host governor, Hope Uzodimma.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Also in attendance at the security summit was the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Prof. George Obiozor as well as top security chiefs in the zone. 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