The South-East Governors Forum has said it would soon name a regional security outfit for the South-East geopolitical zone.

This is coming barely a month after South-West governors launched Amotekun, the Western Nigeria Security Network to combat kidnapping, banditry and other violent crimes.

According to a communique released after the Forum met in Enugu on Sunday, the governors said the process for the set-up of the outfit commenced in 2019.

In a communiqué read by Forum Chairman and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, the forum said that the State Houses of Assembly in the zone have commenced the process of enacting enabling laws to give the outfit legal backing.

The governors added that the Federal Government has been duly informed about plans to launch the outfit.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over the lack of tangible progress and the worsening security and humanitarian situation in Libya.

President Buhari Raised These Concerns At The African Union Peace And Security Council Summit on Situations in Libya and the Sahel in Addis Ababa on Saturday.

A statement from the Nigerian Embassy in Addis Ababa said on Sunday that inspite the best intentions and determined efforts by this Council and the entire African Union, the devastating impact of the conflict on the Libyan people, neighbors, the Sahel and the Lake Chad regions remains alarming.

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has said it warned Nigerians of President Muhammadu Buhari’s inability to secure the country ahead of the 2019 general election.

Convener of the forum, Ango Abdullahi said despite the obvious poor state of insecurity President Buhari is still in deep denial over the result of his failures to secure Nigerians.

Abdullahi urged President Buhari to overhaul the leaders if the country’s security and public safety agencies, saying the agencies need higher levels of integrity, competence and accountability.