By Our Reporter
Over 3,000 suspected gunmen have so far been apprehended by the Anambra Joint Task Force on security in Anambra state.
This is sequel to the procurement of 163 security vehicles by Gov Charles Soludo ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations in the area .
This is coming twenty four hours after a lecture in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka was at about 8 pm was killed by gunmen Tuesday evening.
Disclosing this at the Governor’s lodge Amawbia in Awka South local government area Gov Charles Soludo described the incidents of insecurity in Anambra state as not mere common criminality but an organized Army criminals with their Commanders .
“Before we came into the saddle eight local government areas were under the control of these people but today we have taken over those places but some areas in Ihiala local government area”
“Today we have four FOB in Ihiala, Ebonesi , Osumoghu Lilu , Isseke , Mbosi are to be liberated as well as Orumba South local government areas”
“So far we have arrested over 3,000 suspected gunmen in the last thirty three months and seventy percent of them are not from Anambra state and they are Igbos ”
By next month being January 2025 we shall be launching Operation Peace Must Reign in Anambra state and we have procured 163 vehicles for security operations and we shall apply kinetic approach to crime fighting with extra force ” he said.
Reacting to the fate of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Soludo said ;
“I have been on the vanguard for the release of Nnamdi Kanu and I said release him to me and I will keep him with me and making him available ”
“Nnamdi Kanu and members of IPOB have several statements and issued countless release dissociating themselves from the Monday Sit At Home and the kidnapping and killings ”
“Criminals hide under the cover of the struggle to perpetrate criminality and it has become an organized criminality ”
“The other is in Finland spinning all manner of incitements and they have Commanders and I am not sure if Nnamdi Kanu is released and he say stop if they would accept to stop because an Okada driver that has not seen N100,000.00 and now goes into this type of crime and makes N1 million or two million and you want him to stop and they cannot stop because they have tasted blood and money “. he said.
