June 10, 2026
By Steve Oko & Ugochukwu Alaribe,
Stakeholders across the South-East have called for urgent, coordinated and community-driven strategies to confront rising insecurity in the region, as concerns mount over increasing cases of kidnapping and attacks on communities.
A retired military officer, Major General Nwokoro Ijioma, has faulted what he described as the lack of decisive and coordinated action by South-East governors in addressing insecurity, urging them to urgently evolve a robust and unified regional security framework.
Ijioma said the security situation in the region had escalated beyond a distant concern, stressing that governors, while operating under the constitutional security structure headed by the President as Commander-in-Chief, also bear direct responsibility for protecting lives and property within their states.
