 The Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzorima, has accused politicians in the state of blackmailing security agencies and playing politics with the present insecurity situation in the also local government area of the state. Briefing journalists are the government house in a worry on the present security situation in that local government. The governor stated that the Nigerian army has lost a major and currently a military captain is in a critical state receiving attention of the ICU department of the federal medical center within the last one month in separate attacks by bandits in the area. He urged politicians to join the government and security agencies in the fight against criminality and banditry in order to restore lasting peace in the state. We are packed. As I speak to you, the captain who led that operation is now lying critical at ICU unit of federal medical center with another officer, captain of Nigerian army. And the soldiers were able to recover all the weapons and the fertilizers meant to manufacture local explosives, IEDs. Now in the process they have they burnt down these jobs and this is consistent with our policy. And they were so tactical that new innocent life was lost. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.