From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has said that everything should be done to find lasting solution to the lingering insecurity in Imo State.
This is even as he charged former student leaders from various tertiary institutions in the state to assist in the task of making the state safe.
Anyanwu made the call at the weekend while addressing the youths who paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Owerri, the state capital.
Senator Anyanwu expressed pain over the height of wanton killings in the state and the Southeast in general, urged all stakeholders to strive to quell the menace.
His words: “No sane person, irrespective of party affiliations, will ever be happy with what is going on in our state. The manner in which our youths are being slaughtered is so despicable and barbaric. The most painful of it is that people are afraid to speak out for fear of being killed. Today in our state, people are also afraid to come home because of insecurity unless such person has the capacity to hire so many security personnel that will guard him. This is ridiculous and completely opposite of what we used to have in the state.
“We cannot leave the problem for government alone having seen that it may have been overwhelmed by it. What we should do now is for all hands to be on deck to make our state better.”
Anyanwu, therefore, called on the church, traditional rulers and everyone irrespective of party leaning to be involved in bringing lasting solutions, maintaining that the state government should be amenable for reconciliation to give peace a chance.