Nigeria, April 25 -- How to fast track the setting up of a joint regional security outfit to tackle the worsening insecurity in the region was top on the agenda of the Sunday's security meeting by the South-east governors in Enugu State.

Beyond the general insecurity in the South-east, the meeting appeared to have been prompted by the daring attack on the country home of the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, and the bloody attacks on police facilities in Anambra and Enugu states recently.

The meeting, which was the second in about two weeks, was attended by the host, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and the Deputy Governor of Imo, Placid Njoku.

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