Insecurity: Nigerian Govt, South-East leaders to design new framework

The Federal Ministry of Defence says it would found a broad model to instrumentality the resolutions gathered from the 2026 Southeast determination information acme held successful Umuahia, Abia State.

The Special Assistant to the Minister of Defence, Rear Admiral Oluwale Bankole (Rtd.), disclosed this connected Thursday successful Umuahia portion speechmaking retired the communique of South East information acme hosted by Abia State.

Rear Admiral Bankole stated that the 2026 Southeast Regional Security Summit was convened by the Federal Ministry of Defence successful collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Community Engagement (Southeast) aimed astatine processing applicable solutions to the information challenges successful the South East.

The acme acknowledged that the information concern successful the Southeast has improved importantly but noted that the portion inactive grapples with superior threats, including kidnapping, equipped robbery, politically motivated violence, attacks connected information unit and nationalist infrastructure.

The acme besides reported that proliferation of illicit arms, cause abuse, misinformation, transgression activities and the convulsive enforcement of unlawful sit-at-home orders were immoderate factors that fueled insecurity successful the South East.

The communiqué, which further noted that insecurity transcends authorities ...