Members of the Junior Chambers International(JCI) Benin Metro have advised the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki to use his security votes to fund local vigilantee groups in other to improve on security of lives and prosperity in Edo State.
The advise was contained in a communique issued after a one day Town Hall Meeting on security in Edo State organized by the group at the Nigerian Union of Journalists Media Center , Benin City,the Edo State capital.
The Town Hall Meeting was attended by members of Junior Chambers International,(JCI)Benin Metro;Edo Civil Society Organizations (EDOCSO), representatives of the National Human Rights commission; Academic sttaff Union of Universities, (ASUU) Unben Chapter; Vigilante Group of Nigeria,Edo State Chapter among others stakeholders.
The communique was jointly signed by the 2021 President of the Junior Chambers International,Benin Metro,Elochukwu Umeohanna and other participants , “it stated that it has been observed that a lot of incompetent people have found themselves in power and that such trends should be reversed or else there would be no progress in area of security.
“That security should be everybody’s business,as against what is obtainable, where everybody excepts the government to do it all. That the vigilantee groups should be everybody’s business.”
It also stated, that it has also been observed that government is working,but the methodology seems to have failed,and needs to be revisited.
That the family unit has been eroded, morals depleted.
Stating in it’s recommendation,the group said that the government should look at the local vigilantee as solution to the problem of insecurity in Edo State. “Government is expected to fund, train and retrain the local vigilantee group to compliment the police and other security outfits.
” There should be evaluation and reevaluation of methodologies in handling security issues.Landlords and house owners should have information about their tennant,so that they can be able to provide such information when needed.
“The Edo State Government should fund the local vigilantee groups in the state with it’s monthly security votes.”
On the side of vigilantee groups,they were advised to publicize their activities and achievements through the social and traditional media, in order to attract public and government support.
