Rivers Govts moves to revive neighbourhood security watch

The Rivers has hinted at plans to revive the Neighbourhood Watch, a community-based security outfit set up by the state government under the immediate past administration.

Gov. Siminalayi Fubara met with leaders of the security watch behind closed doors in Port Harcourt.

The Head of Command, Rivers Neighbourhood Watch, Mr. Wogbo Lawrence, said the group was overwhelmed with the assurances given by Gov. Fubara.

Lawrence explained that, in spite of a lack of attention, the security outfit struggled on its own to sustain about 1,150 personnel, with about 50 officers posted in each of the 23 local government areas of the state.

He said: “Members of Rivers Neighbourhood Watch today are overwhelmed bythe promises made by Gov. Fubara.

“For years now, we have beenworking, and that is the reason why we came today to see our governor to revive the agency, and he assured us that he is going to revive it in a short time.”

According to Lawrence, the security outfit is doing its best without funding from the government

“We are doing our best without money in our pockets; by the time the Governor revives the agency, we will do more.

“We are given an assignment, and it is to fight oil theft in our locality.

“We are promising Rivers people that we are going to do something concerning it,” he added.