By Uka Davson
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has charged security agents in the state to protect themselves from attacks of armed men who attack them and destroy their facilities.
The governor gave the charge in Abakaliki while receiving the visiting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of South East zone, DIG Joseph Egbunike at the Executive Council Chambers of the old Government House, Abakaliki
“I charge security agents to engage anyone who attacks them as it is stupid for you to be holding a gun and someone will kill and snatch your gun.
He noted that if a youth has the stupid courage to attack a security agent who has a gun, such security agent should shoot to defend himself if he can.
“The security agents are human beings like others in the society and are also peoples’ fathers and mothers.
“Their lives are not cheaper than our own and you should not allow your personnel posted to the state to leave because we need them and will accommodate them.
Governor Umahi while pledging to support the ongoing Operation Restore peace of the Nigeria Police Force in the South East Zone, called on Security Agencies to enforce existing Social media laws to save the Nigeria Nation from imminent collapse as a result of fake news.
He announced that the State Government would soon come up with a law to tackle the menace of fake news which he noted breeds Social unrest in the Society.
“The most dangerous attack on the Nigerian Nation is fake news, we have sufficient laws to checkmate this fake news.
“I can assure you that we are doing everything we can to reorientate these boys, we have offered amnesty, my position is that this agitation should be aggregated to enable leaders to engage the center, we are not the only ones that are marginalized and no one is burning down police Stations and killing policemen except the southeast”
The DIG in his mission statement, told Gov. Umahi that he was in the state to present his Mission and seek for support for the new police security effort code-named, Operation Restore Peace in the South East.
"I have come here on a simple mission, a simple mission called Operation Restore Peace".
"Operation Restore Peace is an operation that was well-articulated, well-informed and well-collated before the arrival of that name Operation Restore Peace.
" Operation Restore Peace took cognizance of the culture of the Igbo man; it took cognizance of the Igbo man's spartan nature; it took cognizance that *an* Igbo man is a peaceful person. It also took cognizance that the government cannot sit down and watch a group or certain group making the majority suffer without taking appropriate action to bring them before the law and to ensure that we, the majority get the benefits of the society".
He thanked the governor for the audience given to him and his team and relayed the appreciation of the Inspector General of Police over his support to the force.
He noted that dialogue and diplomacy were the solution to agitations of marginalization and injustice, noting that such have provided peace in several parts of the world.
He noted that dialogue and diplomacy were the solution to agitations of marginalization and injustice, noting that such have provided peace in several parts of the world.
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