The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has rejected the decision taken by the South East governors who opted for community policing in line with the security policy of the Federal Government, describing it as an act of cowardice.

This is also as the group has urged the governors to tow the path of their South West counterparts and reconvene and take a decisive stand on the security of the region.

Reacting on the decision by the South-East Governors’ Forum to settle for Community Policing, the National President of OYC, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka stressed that he had received a deluge of calls from Ndigbo both home and overseas, complaining and rejecting the resolution of the governors who had settled for community policing against their initial yearnings for a viable, strong and technology-driven native regional security outfit.

The youth group maintained that the governors, by their actions, only speak for themselves and not for Ndigbo: “As our people had since lost confidence in the Nigerian security agencies, having failed to secure the region from all manner of criminals.”

OYC regretted that rather than serve the general interest of Ndigbo, the governors were hell bent on implementing the decision of ‘the cabal’ whose agents were present at the said meeting.

The Igbo youth organisation, therefore, resolved that the Northern political mafia cannot decide for Ndigbo, just as Amotekun was a collective resolution of the Yorubas, without the interference of the powers from the North.

The youth leader hinted of the resolve and readiness of the Igbo youths to protect their people and defend their land, adding that there was “no going back on the planned regional security outfit as we will not continue to entrust our lives and properties in the hands of the Nigerian security agencies.”(New Telegraph)