Chief Stanley Emegha Okoro, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, has actually warned 5 members of the National Assembly representing the state to desist from petitioning against the presence of Ebubeagu security clothing, which according to him, has actually reduced, killings, burglary attacks and other criminal activities in the state.

Okoro, who is also the Special Security Consultant to the Ebonyi State Government, stated that the Ebubeagu security attire was established and backed up by law to avoid abuse of power, political witch-hunting of anybody, and to minimize all types of criminality in the state.

He made this known in a statement provided to journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital.

“What we have today as Ebubeagu Security Outfit has been in presence prior to the administration of Governor David Umahi in Ebonyi State as Neighborhood Watch. The Governor just rebranded the security attire through training and retraining of its workers and also backed it up with a law to prevent abuse of power in any kind,” he said.

Okoro lamented that “eight workers of Ebubeagu have actually been eliminated in a very gruesome manner in the course of discharging their main assignment with professionalism and gallantry, have actually assisted to boost the security plan in the state for this reason citizens can now sleep with their eyes closed.”

He, however, condemned in strong terms the movement moved and supported by the member representing Afikpo North and South Federal constituency at the green chamber of the National Assembly, Barr. Igariwey Idu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allies from the state getting in touch with the Inspector General of Police and other security intelligence to investigate the Ebubeagu Security Outfit and her activities.

Emegha, who admonished them to be more efficient and positive in their criticisms of the state federal government challenged the legislators to bring their scorecard to the general public instead of be jealous of the various legacies of Governor David Umahi.

“To start with, it is really agonizing to record incidences of eliminating regardless of status due to the fact that it is not good to take life and as such it is condemnable and the Governor has actually currently done that. It is unfortunate that things like that will occur and the opposition celebration will like to catch in simply to heat up the polity and reject the government in power.

“Despite the reality that up to 8 workers of Ebubeagu have actually lost their lives in the course of releasing their tasks, the opposition celebration never had compassion even on their households.

“The rules of engagement of Ebubeagu is well defined in the law of the state embarking its existence. For example, if any of the workers derails in eyes of the law, the individual will automatically embrace it.

“If you get to the authorities you will see some bad eggs amongst them in their custody. For example, some taken part in extorting money from motorists. Some were in the previous arrested, prosecuted, dismissed and now at the correctional facility.

“The Ebubeagu law, 2021 also stipulates that every arrest made need to be handed over to police within a timespan. The opposition celebration capitalising on the occurrence that happened in Ivo Local Government Area to trigger a crisis is despicable and highly inappropriate. Just like what the ex previous lawmaker Linus Okorie is doing.

“The formations of Ebubeagu makes it easier to deal with insecurity hence they are closer to the people therefore minimizing reaction time to the barest minimum, the security expert suggested,” he said.