ABUJA—Prominent  Senator of the  South East, Senator Annie Okonkwo from Anambra Central, has called on the Inspector General of Police, the State Security  Service, the governors of the zone as the chief security officers  in their state, to rise to the challenge of  rampant kidnappings, armed robberies, and  wicked assassins that prowl  the states unimpeded.

He also tasked all  the security agencies in Nigeria to evolve strategy to restore security confidence to the South Easterners as they prepare to travel back home for the Christmas and New Year celebration.
Senator Okonkwo made this call in  Abuja while receiving a  delegation of  eminent Igbo sons  resident in there.

He noted that,  it has become a matter for grave national concern, that a hitherto adventurous race as the Igbo, are  deprived of the unique and  special joy the home coming for Christmas and  New Year offers,  because of  scary multiple  threats to their lives.

The Senator thereby charged the citizens of the zone in Nigeria and in the Diaspora not to succumb to the, “blackmail  of this  condemnable  atrocities,”but urged them to sustain courage  in adversity, and return home en masse to be part of a  transformative development  in their communities.

Senator Okonkwo   emphasised that the cultural bonding  which these festivities  offer his people  “bear direct  impetus to developmental initiatives in the region.”