By Moses Nwite, Abakaliki
The Ebonyi State Government Southeast Nigeria has recommended the arrest and parade of a 15-member gang who terrorised harmless residents of the State on Tuesday morning, 4th July 2023 making an attempt to implement an unlawful sit-at-home order mentioned to have been proclaimed by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB by Nigeria Police.
This was contained in a press release of the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation Engineer Jude Okpor in Abakaliki the State Capital.
“It was indeed disturbing that the peaceful ambience which had prevailed in our dear State was disrupted for the first time under the present administration, when some Unknown-Gun-Men carried out wanton attacks on some innocent citizens of the State conducting their lawful businesses at Ishieke market junction, Ahia Ofu and Ukwuagba market in Ngbo at the outskirts of the Abakaliki Urban metropolis in Ebonyi and Ohaukwu Local Government Areas of the State,” the assertion learn.
Innocent residents(*15*)
The Commissioner mentioned it was confirmed that no life was misplaced throughout the ugly encounter, however property price thousands and thousands of naira had been destroyed. Most worrisome was the concern instilled on harmless residents in different components of Abakaliki and past State by the evil actions of the mentioned hoodlums.
The Ebonyi State authorities is happy with the spontaneous response of the boys and officers of the Nigerian Police Force, Ebonyi State Command and certainly, the sister safety companies within the State who responded to the directives of safety acutely aware governor by arresting and parading the 15 suspects, together with their native Doctor.
They had been apprehended barely 48hours after the assault speaks quantity of the intelligence community and investigative capabilities of the State’s Security Apparatus.
“We are also abundantly satisfied with the level of synergy given by both the sister security agencies and members of the public that led to eventual arrest of the gang members while reportedly plotting to carry out what may have been even a deadlier attack on unsuspecting Citizens of the State.
Security of lives
The Ebonyi State Government therefore sincerely wish to commend the outgoing State’s Commissioner of Police, CP Sunday Faleye Olaleye and his team for their zeal, resilience and outright commitment in ensuring the security of lives and property of Ebonyi citizens.
“The show-of-force parade in Abakaliki and other parts of the State by the joint security patrol as directed by the governor, no doubt further assuaged the fears of some worried and concerned Ebonyi citizens and assured them of the readiness of the state government to live up to their Constitutional responsibility of protecting their lives and property,” Okpor acknowledged.
“We equally express our honest appreciation to other formal and informal security formations, including the Council Chairmen SSAs and SAs on Internal Security in the 13 Local Government Areas in the State for their candid roles in ensuring that our dear State remains in a calm and peaceful climate for the actualization of “the People’s Charter of needs” agenda of the federal government of His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru.”(*15*)
“We therefore wish to also use this opportunity to warn all criminal elements within and around the State to keep off the Salt of the Nation as this government would not tolerate any form of criminality or gangsterism that may disrupt the peace and tranquility necessary for the total delivery of the people-oriented programmes and policies of Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru”(*15*). He mentioned.
Consequently, the federal government in Ebonyi State locations nice premium on safety of lives and property and subsequently enjoins all residents and residents to go about their lawful companies with out concern as it could proceed to do all that’s inside it’s powers to guard and protect them, their companies and property in accordance with the regulation.
