The Labour Party (LP) candidate for the forthcoming Anambra governorship election, Dr George Muoghalu, has said that tackling the challenges of insecurity confronting Anambra is achievable.
Muoghalu said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday.
He decried the level of insecurity and unemployment confronting the state, saying that this was not acceptable.
Muoghalu promised to change the narrative of unemployment, hunger and insecurity as well as kidnapping and assassination in the state if elected governor.
“We are going to change the narrative if elected into office. I mean every word of it. I am going to look at the issue of insecurity from two perspectives, one, the kinetic and the other, non-kinetic.
“When we talk about the issue of youth unemployment, today we are churning out young men and women from the universities and we have no plan, no provision for them.
“Very soon, our kidnapping and robbery and whatever will become scientific because the educated ones are going to join the business, for want of anything to do and it will become more sophisticated.
“Dealing with it also will become more sophisticated and involving, and even more expensive,’’ he said.
The governorship candidate said that with insecurity, no state or nation’s economy could grow.
“There is no way your economy can prosper in an insecure environment, because no sane person will take his money and invest where he himself who is investing is not safe.
“So, we must do something about addressing insecurity’’ he said.
Muoghalu said that in addressing insecurity, government must also address unemployment among the youth as well as invest in intelligence gathering.
He added that to achieve a secure state, government must prioritise the welfare of security personnel to enable them to offer their best, saying that if they felt not cared for, they would not give their best.
Muoghalu said that if elected governor, his administration would invest in equipment and technology to address insecurity in Anambra, adding that technology played key role in tackling insecurity.
“You must sit down and ask yourself: why is locality ‘A’ more secure and safer than locality ‘B’? And the indices are all the same.
“It is about technology. It is about investment by the approving authority in those areas.
“It is about deploying properly the security votes that governors collect; security votes are not for political purposes.
“As the name implies, it is security vote and should be directed strictly to addressing security,’’ Muoghalu said.(NAN)
