Anambra State Police Command has warned hoodlums and mischief makers against involvement in acts capable of undermining the integrity and security of the state.
It frowned at tendencies to participate in or sponsor crime-related crises and polarisation of communities occasioned by self-centered aggrandisement.
The state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Obono Itam, disclosed this while reacting to the recent shootings and killings by gunmen that happened between Nnewi and Nnobi communities, both in Nnewi North and Nnewi South Local Council, respectively.
He said the command had ordered a manhunt for the Nnew- Nnobi attackers whom he said succeeded in abducting a citizen at Nnewi before escaping through Nnobi road after a gun battle with security operatives.
Itam, in a statement issued by spokesperson for the command, Toochukwu Ikenga, confirmed that three persons were killed while three others sustained gunshot wounds.
Meanwhile, aggrieved Nnobi youths have stormed Government House, Awka, to protest an alleged plot to dethrone the community’s traditional ruler, Igwe Nick Obi.
Spokesperson for the youths, Emeka Eze, said they came from the three quarters of Ebenesi, Ngo and Awuda Nnobi to call the president-general and his cohorts to order, to avoid throwing the community into a crisis.
Responding, Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Tony-Collins Nwabunwanne, advised the youths to be law-abiding and shun acts capable of over-heating the state.
The commissioner, who was represented by the ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Henry Nwasike, assured them of timely resolution of the crisis.
He reminded the youths that the Chukwuma Soludo administration is law-abiding and youth-friendly, stressing that the matter for which they were protesting was being looked into by the government and some stakeholders of Nnobi community.
