Emene IPOB, DSS clash: Gov Ugwuanyi summons emergency security meeting
As the dust settles following last Sunday’s clash between the Directorate of State Security, DSS, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Emene, Enugu where two DSS officials and four people were reportedly killed, the Enugu State government plans to hold a security meeting next week.
The State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Wednesday night announced that there will be an emergency State Security Council meeting.
The meeting is coming about a week after the deadly clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and security agencies.
Since the incident last Sunday, normal life has not returned to Emene, a sprouting area of the state capital as businesses remained closed and movement of people and goods was stalled.
The meeting, according to a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, will hold on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, at the Executive Council Chambers, Lion Building, Government House, Enugu, at 2pm.
The statement says that “all security agencies in the state are expected to brief His Excellency, the Governor, fully, on the immediate and remote causes of the clashes, as well as advance measures to avert such occurrences in the future.”
Governor Ugwuanyi earlier visited the scene of the clash close to St. Patrick’s Secondary School, Emene, where he was assured that normalcy had returned.
But residents of the area say they are still afraid of their lives as what they witnessed on Sunday was still very fresh in their minds.
The Ohaneze Youths Council had in a statement on Wednesday appealed for calm and urged both IPOB and security agencies not to embark on reprisal attack and allow peace to prevail in the area.
