Nibo killings: Step Aside if you are bereft of ideas, Ozigbo – Soludo

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1st runners up of the 2021 Anambra Governorship Election, Mr Valentine Chineto Ozigbo has described the unfortunate Nibo killing on Sunday as a mockery to Anambra’s security architecture.

Reacting to the incident, Ozigbo a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), said if Governor Chukwuma Soludo has now run out of ideas, he should step aside because the state cannot continue to live like this.

He expressed dismay that despite previous attacks, those saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and property, did nothing while Anambra burnt.

Ozigbo said since the emergence of Soludo’s administration, the state has witnessed a resurgence in the activities of agberos (touts) who have been enjoying unfettered freedom to carry out their nefarious activities in the guise of acting as the state government’s revenue agents.

While commiserating with the families and victims of the senseless killings in Nibo last Sunday, Ozigbo however called for the restructuring of the entire security infrastructure to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and suitability for its purpose.

“It was with shock that I received the bad news and I can imagine how the surviving victims and the families of the slain must be feeling now. I also send my sincere condolences to Ezeike Nibo, the traditional ruler of Nibo in whose domain the tragedy took place.

“Yesterday, Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, finally visited the scene of a disaster for the first time in several months. He was visiting a full day after 12 of his citizens were mown down by hoodlums at a shouting distance from where he lives.

“The attacks are an embarrassment to the state’s security architecture which has been coming under scrutiny by many well-meaning citizens of Anambra State. That such could happen unchallenged very near to where the state’s number one citizen resides is the height of the governor’s failure to secure the life and property of his people.

“Even the governor’s belated visit to a crime scene near his door is just as embarrassing, for it seemed as though he did that to fulfill all righteousness. To add insult to injury, he went there and turned a mournful and sober situation into a moi moi eating session, not minding the sensibilities of victims and their families. It is little wonder that the social media space is currently saturated by complaints from embarrassed citizens.

“But is anyone really surprised at the recent unsavory developments in the state? Many of these agberos are known to be either living on the fringes of criminality or to be full blown criminals. Yet, they have become the beloved of the present government. It is, therefore, not rocket science that cultism has overrun the state as these people constitute the majority of cultists. This is so, so sad.”

The immediate past President of Transcorp Plc, further maintained that time has come to put an end to these unwarranted yet preventable acts of violence in the state, that discouraged people and their friends from visiting Anambra, and has inturn, destroyed once-thriving tourism and related businesses, and instilled daily fear and anxiety on residents.

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