Igwemade the call in Owerri on Monday while reacting to the release of Mr Ndubuizu Ugorji, a journalist, who was kidnapped in Owerri on Tuesday last week by unknown gun men.
The chairman said the call had become necessary because “it appears the state government has been overwhelmed by the menace of kidnapping.
“I want the Federal Government to assist Imo State as it did to Abia State when the state was literally under the siege of kidnappers.”
The Federal Government deployed soldiers to Osisioma Ngwa area of Abia in 2011 to flush out kidnappers who terrorised the people of Abia for years.
Ugorji, an editor with the Imo Broadcasting Corporation, was abducted while driving out of the corporation’s residential quarters in Orji, Owerri.
The kidnappers had placed a N10 million ransom on him and later reduced it to N5 million before his release on Friday night.
In an interview with in Owerri on Monday, Ugorji said that he was very worried about the involvement of Nigerian youths in crime.
“I was kept in a very big forest that could have been harnessed for the economic benefit of the country but this is the forest the misguided youths have turned into a detention camp.
“From their conversations, you could see that if nothing is done urgently there is no future for our youths.
“If you listen to their world view and philosophy of life, you will not only be frightened but realise that something very drastic has to be done for this country to be safe,” he said.
Ugorjiwho declined comments on whether a ransom was paid or not before his release, thanked God for making him regain his freedom.
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