Gov. Mbah Seeks Navy’s Collaboration to End Insecurity in S/East

Gov. Mbah Seeks Navy’s Collaboration to End Insecurity in S/East

The Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah has seek collaboration with the Nigerian Navy to combat the threat of insecurity in the state and the South East region.

Mr. Mbah made the request when he pay a courtesy visit to the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, on Tuesday, at Naval Headquarters, Abuja.

He noted that the visit was to identify with the naval chief who is from the state as well as appreciate President Bola Tinubu for the honour of appointing a son of the state as CNS.

He stated that his administration had set plans to achieve exponential growth in the state through strong economic policies, but that such plans could only succeed in a stable and peaceful environment.

The governor urged the Nigerian navy to extend its operational activities in the state, saying his administration was willing to work with the navy and other security agencies to tackle insecurity in the region.

His word, “If we must deal with the root causes of insecurity, we must adopt both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to dealing with insecurity and we felt that the big elephant in the room was to address those activities that may be an inhibition to bringing in investors to our state.

“We felt that it was a clog in the wheel of our continued development, which was why immediately I took over as the governor, I convened the security council meeting.

“Following from that we made an announcement that we wanted the Monday sit-at-home to end, because we have zero tolerance to that.

“We needed to heighten our security architecture and to mobilise all the security agencies in our state to be able to deal with this, and thus far we are getting the required support we need from the various security agencies.

“We are also hoping that we are going to invite the Navy on board to join hands with us to be able to deal with these big elephants in the room,” he said.

In his remark, the CNS, said that the relationship between the Nigerian navy and other stakeholders like state governments had been instrumental to the successes they have been achieving.

Ogalla said the current security challenges facing the country required the whole government approach, saying the navy had extended its operations to cover both maritime domain and even the land spectrum.

He said the naval base and the special forces deployed in the South East had been contributing to the security apparatus in the region and promised to extend those operations further.

The CNS said the navy would continue to partner with state governments and other stakeholders to provide an enabling environment for businesses to thrive for the overall economic well-being and progress of the country.

“We are also have in our strategic plan, the vision of having a permanent presence With Enugu state to contribute to the security of the state with an overall objective of promoting the economic well-being of the state”, he said.

By PRNigeria