The Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial Zone, Barr. Chukwuka Utazi has called for caution over the security challenges in Enugu State.
Utazi, who is the Senate Committee Chairman, Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, spoke in a statement he issued on Monday.
He noted that “the insecurity as currently witnessed in our dear Enugu State, a state adjudged the most peaceful and safest in Nigeria is indeed painful and regrettable.”
He added that “The situation calls for sober reflection than using the ugly events as politics or to sabotage the commendable efforts of our dear governor.
“Since this senseless and mindless killings in our once safe state, governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had done all within his constitutional powers to forestall and nip the heinous crimes in the bud.
“Aside convening security meeting at the wake of this security challenge, the governor had also commenced clearing of bushes along the major high ways as was agreed by the South East governors, recruitment of forest guards, reorganization of vigilante groups and submission of executive bill on anti-kidnap to the State House of Assembly amongst others.”
“Let us all understand that security remains everybody’s business and as such I, therefore, call on all good-spirited and well-meaning citizens of Enugu State to rally round support for our governor at this trying moment to wage war against hoodlums.
“I urge all hands to be on deck to reclaim our dear once peaceful state from this rampaging heartless hoodlums,” he added.
