Youths seek police investigation on cultism, kidnapping, others
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More trouble loom in Nanka community in Orumba North council area, Anambra State, as youths in the town have called on the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hassan Kharma to investigate allegations of cultism, kidnapping and other allegations leveled against them by the chairman of Amakor, one of the seven villages in Nanka, Mr. Emmanuel Nwofor.
Narrating their ordeal to The Guardian in Nanka, the chairman of Nanka youths and his Vice, Messrs Ifedilichukwu Nwankwo and Paul Anamalu respectively, urged the police to call the Nanka Progressive Union (NPU) to order, particularly Mr. Nwofor, alleging that he sponsored a defaming publication in a national newspaper, against their members.
They also declared as false and unfounded the newspaper report alleging that a gang of hoodlums suspected to be cultists have taken over the community, forcing many prominent sons to flee the town.
They said youths have sued Nwofor to court for defamation of their character, for invitating security operatives to harass innocent young men and spreading false rumor against members of their group.
In separate interviews, Nwankwo called for police thorough investigation on the alleged harassment, kidnap, intimidation, extortion made against the Nanka Youths, with a view to finding out the truth in the matter, accusing the NPU of working to silence them.
He listed what he called atrocities committed in the community while the NPU felt unconcerned. He pointed out that two elderly men were beheaded in Agbirigba village last year by unknown persons, while one Sunday from Enugu village was shot dead recently by uniformed men suspected to be security agents, among other inhuman treatment.
“Police raided my home in Agbirigba early this month, shooting sporadically, even shot and killed my Alsatian dog when everybody had ran away in the melee following reports that I was involved in kidnapping and intimidating the villagers”, Nwankwo said.
He argued that such atrocities going-on unchecked necessitated the formation of Nanka youths movement to tackle such problems, which NPU has failed to address in our community.
Nwankwo, however, queried why the NPU banned the youths’ movement in the town since 2007, saying that youths could not fold their arms watching much havoc going on in Nanka.
