The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council has urged the President Ahmed Tinubu and Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori led federal and State governments to come together and solve the rising security challenges facing the country and the State caused by the influx of unverified persons.
This was as the group equally called for periodic profiling of residents, especially those without means of identification, to checkmate crime.
The call is contained in a Communique’ issued on Thursday January 18th 2024, at the inaugural State Congress of the Union in Asaba, the State capital.
The Communique’ was signed by the State Council Chairman, Comrade Churchill Oyowe, the State Scribe, Comrade Victor Sorokwu.
Others are Mr. Godwin Ijediogor (Guardian Bureau Chief), whose served as Chairman, Communique Drafting Committee, Ifeanyi Olannye (NAN) Secretary, Communique Drafting Committee and Ifeoma Okafor (NTA), Member, Communique Drafting Committee.
It maintained that the rising rate of insecurity had crippled business activities and restrained investments in the country and State.
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The NUJ, Delta State Council, at the Congress on January 18, after deliberation on the State of the Nation:
– Expresses concern over the state of insecurity in the country, particularly in Delta State, and frowns at the influx of persons with no known or verifiable addresses into the state, thereby heightening insecurity.
– Calls for periodic profiling of residents, especially those without means of identification, to checkmate crime.
– Calls on security agencies to carry out periodic raid of uncompleted buildings inhabited by miscreants to restore peace and order in the state.
-Calls on the relevant government agencies to carry out oversight on beggars in areas, such as Interbau, DBS, Koka Roundabout, all in Asaba and others to restore sanity.
– Calls on the police and other relevant security agencies to check/regulate the activities of commercial tricycles and motorcycles operators, particularly on the highways Delta State.
– Calls for the banning of the activities of scavengers, a.k.a Iron Condemn in Delta State.
– Calls for the non- involvement of the executive arm of government in the appointment of senior electoral officers of the electoral body (INEC), such as Chairman, Commissioners and REC, and its funding should directly come from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to ensure credible elections in the country and reduce the judicialisation of the electoral process.
– Condemns the police invasion of a live television programme in Abia State and urges sanctions on all those found culpable.
– Lauds the judgment of the Abuja High Court that the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) cannot fine broadcast stations for alleged breach of its code.
Finally, the congress calls for the decentralization of policing in the country to pave the way for federal, state, metropolitan, and local government
police to ensure the effective security of lives and property.
Signed:
Churchill Oyowe – Chairman, NUJ, Delta Council
Victor Sorokwu – Secretary, NUJ, Delta Council
Godwin Ijediogor, (Guardian Bureau Chief)- Chairman, Communique Drafting Committee
Ifeanyi Olannye (NAN) Secretary, Communique Drafting Committee
Ifeoma Okafor(NTA)- Member, Communique Drafting Committee
