The Chairman of Isi-Uzo LGA, Enugu State, Hon. Obiora Obeagu, says continued cooperation between the Nigerian Army and the civil population will help to consolidate the relative security and peace achieved in the area so far.

Obeagu made the assertion during a recent commissioning of Community Secondary School, Mbu (CSSM), a project attracted by an indigene of the community and Commander of the Nigerian Army Ordinance Corps, Major Gen. Jonathan Ugwuoke, under the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Civil-Military Cooperation.

The Council Chairman, who also used the occasion to convey the gratitude of the people of Isi-Uzo to the governor of Enugu State, Dr  Peter Mbah, and the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, for their partnership and intervention, which had substantially addressed insecurity and yielded development projects in the council area, noted that the governor and the military had been deploying kinetic and non-kinetic interventions to achieve that.

He observed that the establishment of the military camp at Ogbete Mgbuji, Eha-Amufu and around Isi-Uzo through the partnership between the Mbah Administration and the Nigerian Army was a critical part of the successful security interventions, pledging to work to strengthen it.

“Other interventions in the areas of road infrastructure, health and education projects such as the ongoing multi-billion naira Smart Green School initiative across the 11 Wards in Isi-Uzo and 260 wards of Enugu State, 11 Type-2 Primary Healthcare Centres, and the CSSM project commissioned at Mbu are critical projects that will help tackle insecurity and sustain development in Isi-Uzo. Education will help to bring people out of poverty and raise a generation of informed and empowered youths and leaders that will contribute to community development instead,” Obeagu stated.

He added that his engagements with Army Generals over the years had exposed him and the communities in Isi-Uzo to the nature of intervention projects executed by the military for public good and dispelled the childhood and usual notion that military only exists to fight war, adding that Isi-Uzo LGA remained a great beneficiary of Civil-Military Cooperation projects.

He expressed his willingness and readiness to sustain that partnership in order to attract more people-oriented projects that will help secure Isi-Uzo, foster long-term stability in the communities, deliver democracy dividends and sustain development in the Council area.