The Mkpat Enin Local Government Area Transition Chairman, Hon. Mercy Bassey has declared her readiness to partner with the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor Umo Eno on Youth Matters in order to curb insecurity and promote peace in the council area of Akwa Ibom state.
Bassey stated this over the weekend while she played host to the SSA to the Governor on Youth Matters, Mr. Iniobong Akpan at the council secretariat with the village youth presidents and heads of security agencies in Mkpat Enin Local Government.
She applauded the Governor's Aid for putting up a timely meeting to compliment her efforts of combing out criminality in the council area, added that security is priority in Governor Umo Eno's ARISE Agenda and therefore becomes a priority for her administration, noting that she is open to multidimensional collaborations with security agencies and other groups genuinely committed to fostering peace and security in Mkpat Enin.
"I wish to commend the SSA to the Governor on Youth Matters for coming up with this meeting. In the past we have held similar meetings with Village Youth Presidents and we achieved lot of positive gains. Mkpat Enin and ofcourse Akwa Ibom State has never been known for criminality.
"So far, we have invested a lot of resources to weed the bad guys out of our midst and I can assure you that very soon all these unfortunate happenings will be a thing of the past. The governor has been very particular about keeping the state safe for all and as the Chairman of Mkpat Enin, I can say that we will not relent in replicating these policies in our various communities".
In his remarks, Mr. Akpan emphasized the need for partnership between community youth leaders and security officers in maintaining peaceful and safe environment, where citizens can go about their legitimate businesses and sleep with their eyes closed.
Comrade Akpan said the meeting became imperative because of the recent happenings in many of the localities, urging the youth leaders to be more patriotic in safeguarding their communities and reiterated the importance of teamwork approach at a time when security maintenance is an integral part of governance as encapsulated in the ARISE Agenda.
"As we know, the security situation has been bad and we know that as youth presidents you are the security officers of your respective villages. There is no way people will perpetuate crime in your villages and you tell me that you are not aware. It is not about being called youth presidents when you cannot even sleep in your various houses and close your two eyes.
"We have to take back our communities from hoodlums because these vices does not represent who we are at all. Today, we have a governor who is very deliberate about development and employment. There is no way we can have meaningful development when all you do is kidnap people sent to work in your villages.
"It is our duties to protect our communities and government investments because development cannot thrive in the midst kidnapping, murder, violence, stealing and so. Today's meeting is to mandate you to be ARISE Ambassadors, we have to work closely especially in the area of information gathering.
"You have the security agencies here, the council chairman who is very active and responsive, myself and other leaders to partner with so that we can purge our various communities of these criminals. We all know that security is an integral part of the ARISE Agenda of His Excellency and we have to be partners so that we can help him actualise his administration goals".He concluded
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