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Ahead of this year’s Christmas and New Year festivities, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has told Imo indigenes and residents alike to cooperate with security agencies deployed to the state to keep the peace and maintain law and order.
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Uzodimma spoke, yesterday, at the 82 Army Division in Orlu, while formally flagging off this year’s Exercise Golden Dawn II of the Nigerian Army, which will last from October 4, 2022, to January 4, 2023.
The Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the governor, Oguwike Nwachuku, disclosed this in a statement made available to The Guardian.
The governor said the operation became necessary because the Yuletide is a period that all “our beloved brothers and sisters far and near come home to celebrate the festive period with us.”
He said: “It is, therefore, the time that we need to put security measures in place to have uninterrupted celebrations.”
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This exercise will go a long way in improving the security situation in our state, as well as the entire zone, giving our people a sense of security, and encouraging our brothers and sisters to come home without fear.
“Imo today is being faced with various security issues ranging from banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, illegal oil bunkering among others.”
He noted that the security situation in the state did not start now and that the situation is fast improving.
Appealing to those involved in any form of criminality in the state to rethink, and do a detour for their benefit, Uzodimma assured security agencies that his government would continue to support them within available resources and capacity to discharge their constitutional obligations to the citizens of Nigeria, in particular, and the Nation at large.
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