IMO state launches operation know your neighbor.

In an attempt to curb recent security challenges in the state and its environs,the IMO state government has launched a new program tagged operation know your neighbor. This is a welcome development and in my opinion it is pertinent we start being observant and knowing our neighbors. Read on

We formally launched a programme that is called Know Your Neighbour, which is intended to help all of us become vigilante personnel.

“It means everybody in Imo State will become a vigilante member and we will get information and share telephone numbers that are available in the public domain in case there is any alert.

“It was also agreed that it was through information that the explosives planted in a church were uncovered. There may have been suspicion; there may have been some infiltration.”

Explaining that it was natural for people to be afraid after such an incident, the commissioner added that the people of the state had already been told to go about their business without fear   since normalcy had returned to the state.

However, the Igbo Leaders of Thought, an association of Igbo socio-political leaders, had on Monday accused the police of shielding the six “northerners”, arrested in connection   with the Owerri incident.

The group, in a statement by its Deputy Secretary, Eliot Uko, said the failure of the police to   parade the suspects was a pointer to its claim.

The statement read in part, “We condemn the refusal of the Imo Commissioner of Police to parade the arrested Boko Haram fighters who attempted to plant bombs in an Owerri church last weekend.

“The six fighters, said to be northerners by eyewitnesses,confessed they had a mandate to bomb five churches in Owerri. They are being shielded, a sharp contrast to the humiliation the police gave pro-Biafran activists in Enugu penultimate week by parading them naked to complete their humiliation.

“Ndigbo are keenly watching developments as they unfold.”