Southeast Governors Finally Reaches Agreement With IG, Sets For Community Policing
Southeast Governors Finally Reaches Agreement With IG, Sets For Community Policing
Governors of the South-East states have said they have ended their rift with the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over the modalities for community policing in the geographical zone.
Ebonyi State governor and Chairman of South-East Governors Forum, David Umahi, made this known to newsmen in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, after a virtual meeting of the governors with Mr Adamu on Wednesday.
Umahi, who said the IG agreed with the position of the governors that the various security apparatus already in existence at the local government and community levels be included in the new scheme, blamed the Commissioners of Police in the region for the disagreement.
Umahi said: “The meeting was based on the communiqué we issued after our Sunday meeting of the governors.
We the governors of South-East and our leaders were the first to accept community policing because of the ingredients of the community policing the IG explained to us when we had the meeting at Enugu.
“We saw that the idea would assist us and so when the CPs made a mistake by going to do the composition by themselves and asked the governors to inaugurate, we felt that something was wrong somewhere and we had to contact the IG”
He also noted that the governors had agreed that there would be a local government advisory committee to be headed by the chairman of each local government area.
“The membership includes all the DPOs and heads of other security agencies, the traditional rulers in each local government and other stakeholders.”
“This is what we have agreed and we also agreed that the states will implement theirs and inaugurate in their various states. When next we meet at Enugu, we will harmonise our views in line with these agreements we reached,” he said
