Insecurity: MOSIEND Seeks N’Delta Regional Security Outfit

A pan-Ijaw group, Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), has called on the South-South governors to establish a regional security outfit to complement other security services to battle insecurity in the region.
The group also suggested the name to be Niger Delta Defense and Security Network (NDDSN).
In a statement signed by the National President of MOSIEND, Kennedy Tonjo West, and issued to newsmen via email, the group said the personnel needed to be trained and equipped with firearms to stem the insecurity.
The statement reads, “As MOSIEND, we believe the South-South governors are trying in their individual states, but needs to come together to consolidate on their achievements by deploying some of the funds to establishing a regional security network.
“Take for instance, in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike, established the land and water surveillance which engaged thousands of locals for security surveillance across the 23 LGAs, assisting the security agencies with first hand and prompt information dissemination, adding to the gunboats, vehicles and other logistics support he renders, not to mention the Neighbourhood Watch initiative that was opposed by the military.
“In Bayelsa, the government also have the Bayelsa Volunteers working hand-in-glove with the vigilante (also local security outfit). The same is seen in Delta, Akwa Ibom, Edo and Cross River.
“With the BRACED Commission and the South-South governors meeting on regional security will engender more commitment in terms of appropriating and applying the security votes in response to dousing the growing insecurity.”