Fubara To Revive Rivers Neighbourhood Watch

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has hinted on plans to revive the State’s Neighbourhood Watch, a community-based security outfit set up by the immediate past administration.

Governor Fubara spoke on the consideration of reviving the security outfit when he met with its leaders behind closed doors at Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday night.

Briefing newsmen after the meeting, the Head of Command, Rivers State Neighbourhood Watch, Wogbo Lawrence, expressed satisfaction with the assurances given by the governor  after six years of neglect.

He explained that despite the lack of remuneration, the security outfit had struggled independently to sustain about 1,150 personnel that it has posted to the 23 local government areas of the state.

Despite signing into law the Act establishing an agency for the community-based security outfit in March 2018, its full operation suffered setbacks during the last administration as the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, alleged that the security architecture was to be used to intimidate its members in the 2019 elections.