Insecurity: Administrators urged to relocate to development areas

Determined to stem local security challenges, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has directed the 68 newly sworn-in Development Area administrators in the state to relocate to their areas and take charge immediately.

South East Trust reports that Ugwuanyi’s directive was apparently a reaction to the recent killings by gunmen in some communities in Enugu State.

Also, the governor directed the new administrators to engage all traditional rulers, presidents of town unions, religious leaders, youth organizations, women organisations, neighbourhood watch groups, forest guards and indeed all stakeholders in their respective development areas, to inspire a grassroots security network underpinned by robust intelligence gathering and communication of same to security agencies.

Governor Ugwuanyi, who gave the directive when he swore in the administrators, at the government house, Enugu, stressed that the grassroots engagement strategy “is the only means of fully reclaiming our neighbourhoods.”