Delta Stakeholders Urge Oborevwori’s Assent to Security Corps Law

Concerned stakeholders have called on Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, to urgently assent to and implement the Delta State Community Security Corps Agency Law, 2025, warning that rising insecurity now poses a serious threat to lives, livelihoods, and food security across the state.

In a formal appeal addressed to the governor, the group expressed “a deep sense of responsibility and patriotic concern” over persistent attacks on farmers by armed herdsmen, kidnapping for ransom, and other violent crimes.

The law, passed by the Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, was sponsored by the Chairman of the House Committee on Peace and Security, Hon. (Dr.) Isaac Anwuzia, and repeals the 2020 version to provide what the lawmakers described as a more robust and legally grounded framework for community-based security.

According to the stakeholders, the legislation is intended to strengthen the state’s security architecture by creating a formal Community Security Corps Agency that can complement conventional security agencies, improve intelligence gathering, and respond swiftly to grassroots security threats, similar to the Amotekun model in the South-West.

While commending the governor for assenting to the Delta State Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Cultism (Amendment) Law, 2025, and launching the Delta State Security Trust Fund, the group raised concern that the Community Security Corps law has remained unsigned months after its passage.

They warned that security laws without enforcement structures risk becoming “symbolic documents, not instruments of protection,” referencing the largely dormant Delta State Anti-Open Grazing Law, despite continued attacks on farmlands.

The appeal also highlighted growing fears that displaced criminal and terrorist elements from other regions could seek refuge in parts of the Niger Delta, making proactive security measures imperative.

The stakeholders urged the governor to ensure that assent to the law is followed by immediate implementation, including recruitment guidelines, training standards, funding mechanisms, oversight frameworks, and coordination with existing security agencies.

They concluded that activating the law would send a strong signal that the Oborevwori administration is “proactive, people-centered, and determined to protect lives, investments, farmlands, and communities.”