•Community urges Soludo to intervene in communal clashes
Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, on Saturday, appealed to the Presidents-General of town unions in the state to support the new security initiative of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led administration, Operation Udo Ga-Achị, to restore total security and rid the state of criminals.
Addressing the PGs during his courtesy visit to the Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU), at the ASATU Hall, the Government House, Awka, Mefor assured that the state government is leaving no stone unturned to recover Ihiala and other parts of the state threatened by criminals.
He said: “Anambra is a great state, but criminals are bent on turning things upside down. That’s why we have in place the Anambra State Homeland Security Law, which established a new security outfit called Agunechemba, which replaced the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG), and launched Operation Udo Ga-Ach.
“Some people are asking why we had to do it in January. The launch was what you saw on January 18. The new security architecture took quite some time to plan. Acquiring the tech, constructing the command and control and call centres, putting in place one of the best tracking systems, the special purpose vehicles, and putting the Operation Udo Ga-Achi Strike Force together, among others, took time, perhaps months. The important thing, therefore, is that no time is late and the security intervention is now in place and already recording spectacular results.”
The commissioner explained that the law is not only tackling crime and criminality but is also addressing the enablers of crime, like self-acclaimed ndi dibia (fake native doctors), those into Oke-Ite, that is, money rituals that are alien to Igbo culture.
MEANWHILE, Umuoba Anam Community in Anambra East Local Council of Anambra State has appealed to Governor Chukwuma Soludo to intervene in the lingering communal clashes over land dispute among the people of Egbeagu Eziagulu, Aguleri, and Umuoji Umuoba, Anam.
In a statement through its Federated Association of Umuoba Anam Council, the President, Sylvester Okoye, said the land in question, Omagu Umuoji, has been under the ownership and control of the Umuoji people since time immemorial.
Contrary to the narrative presented by Egbeagu Eziagulu-Otu people, the people of Umuoji have been peacefully farming, fishing, and utilising the land for a long time now without interference until the most recent provocations by some miscreants from Egbeagu Eziagulu-Otu community.
