The United Igbo Elders Forum, an Igbo socio-cultural organization, has called on southeast governors to collaborate and come up with a collective approach to tackling rising insecurity in the zone.

The group made the call during a meeting in Awka on Friday in a joint statement signed by Mr. Alpha Ikpeama and Mr. Harford Ugwu, Coordinator and Secretary of the group respectively.

The statement blamed the near lack of coordination among the Southeast governors for the insecurity in the area.

According to the statement, the concept of Community Vigilance Groups should be revived and reinvigorated in the respective states in the Southeast, to complement the efforts of the Federal Government.

It noted that strengthening the community vigilance groups would assist in information and intelligence gathering, noting that this would go a long way to arresting incidents of insecurity in the zone.

“We advocate for the effectuation of vigilance groups in all villages and communities in the South East.

“This would help in the aspect of information and intelligence gathering and would also help in assisting the southeast governors in the fight against insecurity.

“We also urge the governors in the southeast to work as a body and create the much-needed unity, as chief security officers of the geopolitical zone, to save our land from the sustained insurgency in the area,” it stated.

It noted that the body had set up a seven-man committee headed by the former governor of Enugu State, Okwesilieze Nwodo, to ensure the unification of Igbos, by working with the Ohaneze Ndigbo, in the battle against insecurity.