Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oboreveori, has been urged to sign into law the Delta State Community Security Corps Agency Law, 2025, and immediately set in motion the machinery for its full implementation, against the backdrop of a spike in reported incidents of insecurity across the state.
This call was contained in an official correspondence by the Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, dated January 8, 2026 and jointly signed by the Chairman of DOPF, Emmanuel Enebeli, and the Secretary, Shedrack Onitsha.
The forum said it was compelled to write with a deep sense of responsibility and patriotic concern over the persistent attacks on farmers by armed herdsmen, increasing cases of kidnapping for ransom and other violent crimes threatening livelihoods, food security and public confidence in governance.
According to DOPF, the Delta State Community Security Corps Agency Law was duly passed by the Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, after completing the full legislative process and third reading. The law, sponsored by Hon. (Dr.) Isaac Anwuzia, Chairman of the House Committee on Peace and Security, repealed the 2020 version and was deliberately crafted to establish a more robust, structured and legally grounded framework for community-based policing and grassroots security across the state.
The forum explained that the clear intention of the House was to strengthen Delta State’s security architecture by creating a formal Community Security Corps Agency capable of complementing conventional security agencies, improving intelligence gathering at the community level and responding swiftly to local security threats that federal security forces are increasingly overstretched to handle. It likened the proposed agency to regional security initiatives such as Amotekun in the South-West.
While commending Governor Oborevwori for assenting to the Delta State Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Cultism (Amendment) Law, 2025, and for establishing the Delta State Security Trust Fund, DOPF expressed concern that the Community Security Corps Agency Law, which it described as the operational backbone for effective grassroots security enforcement, has remained unsigned several months after its passage.
The forum warned that the delay raises troubling questions, particularly when viewed against the experience of the Delta State Anti-Open Grazing Law, which, despite being enacted in the previous dispensation, has largely remained unenforced even as farmers continue to suffer violent attacks on their farmlands. It noted that laws without clear enforcement structures risk becoming symbolic documents rather than instruments of protection.
DOPF further observed that the prevailing security climate makes the immediate activation of the law imperative, citing reports of terrorist elements being displaced from the North-East following recent international military operations and the growing fear that criminal networks may seek refuge in relatively less fortified regions, including parts of the Niger Delta.
The forum stressed that assenting to the law must go hand in hand with the immediate establishment of implementation frameworks, including recruitment guidelines, training standards, sustainable funding mechanisms, oversight structures and coordination protocols with existing security agencies.
As the New Year unfolds, DOPF appealed to the governor to present the signing and implementation of the Delta State Community Security Corps Agency Law, 2025, as a decisive reassurance to Deltans that their safety matters and that laws enacted in their interest will not be allowed to gather dust on government shelves.