Insecurity In Delta State, What Oborevwori Is Doing Differently- Udoka

Rt. Governor Sheriff Oborevwori is committed to a bottom-up approach towards addressing security challenges and to strengthen the ongoing peace process in Delta state.

Insecurity is endemic in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous country and every state in Nigeria have their fair share of security challenges.

Economic challenges and high rate of unemployment is also part of the reasons why crime rate surges in Nigeria generally as those who doesn’t have any other means of livelihood subscribes to crime.

In Delta State, we are faced with kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and in some local Government, Fulani herdsmen attack.

Immediately after 2023 General Election, the rate of kidnapping, armed robbery in Delta increased because out of desperation, the opposition party used all their political influence to release many deadly criminals from the prison,
armed them with different kinds of guns to cause violence in PDP dominated Areas so they can win.

The aftermath was that those they released returned to the streets with the same arms kidnapping anything that crosses their path and were demanding from 20,000 to 300,000 ransom but thank goodness for Governor’s proactive security measures we are all enjoying.

There’s no way you can totally eradicate crime in our society but Governor has put up measures to minimize.

Remember Governor Sheriff’s convoy was also attacked along sapele Rd during his campaign period with assault riffles.

Kidnapping along airport Rd, Ughelli Rd, Effurun, Ekpan, Effurun Sapele road and lately, Egbo and Agbarho were some of the challenges the Governor faced immediately after 2023 election.

You don’t expect the Governor to carry arms to show that he’s working but his unquantified support to agencies saddled with the responsibility to combat crimes by providing them with all necessary logistics shows his passion to fight crime.

Governor Sheriff is most experienced in combating crime haven served as Security Assistant/Advisor to the former Governors, Chief Ibori and Emmanuel Uduaghan.

Armed gangs are ravaging the South ,East, West and Northern regions of the country, jihadist groups are active in the northeast and the southeast has been rocked by separatist unrest but going by statistics, Delta is relatively peaceful as security 2024 analysis rated insecurity in Delta to 34% in September, 29% in October, December 14.9%.

It is said that as citizens whether individual or corporate, if everyone accounts for every family member and upholds the tenets of moral, religious, cultural, societal and traditional values, there would be no terrorists, bandits, robbers, arms smugglers, child traffickers, cattle rustlers, militants, corruption etc. Subsequently, the work of the government, military and security agencies would be easier.

Above all, we must all resort to our moral and religious, socio-cultural values which would make all of us protect the sanctity of human life, abhor immoral and irresponsible behaviours and live up to our responsibility of raising good members of the society.

Once our societies are populated with good moral and religious behaviours, the fight against insecurity would be easier to win.

Engr. Udoka Emmanuel Chika-dibie, Mnse.
Executive Assistant (Security)