Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has described those condemning the Agunechemba security outfit as supporters and accomplices of kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminals in the state.

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Governor Soludo said this, Saturday, at the funeral mass for late Justice Azuka, the slain Labour Party member, who represented Onitsha 1 Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly.

Roll call

Present at the ceremony were Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate in the last election; Senator Victor Umeh (Anambra Central ), Senator Tony Nwoye (Anambra North), Emeka Idu (Onitsha North and South Federal Constituency).

Others are Pascal Agbodike (Ihiala Federal Constituency), Chief Chima Nzeibe, who also represented Ihiala Federal Constituency, former Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, and aspirant to the governorship sit under LP, Chief George Moghalu, Chief Valentine Ozigbo, LP governorship aspirant, and former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state, Chief Oseloka Obaze.

Soludo…

During his remarks, Governor Soludo promised to ensure that the family of the late lawmaker did not lack anything, but he refused to mention what he will do for them.

He said: “They murdered Justice and we will give them justice. No two ways about it.

“We are so shocked the way to youths of these days are taking human lives.

“Many people have in the past been kidnapped and ransoms were paid and they were released. But youths of these day kidnap and kill their victims even when they have collected ransom.

“We must condemn what they are doing and it must stop. We will not allow them to continue the wickedness.

“Some people are condemning the security outfit we set up, and even calling me names. But we don’t care about what they are saying.

“Anambra must be secured to be the most secured state in Nigeria. The people condemning the Agunechemba security are the people who celebrate those working with kidnappers and armed robbers who terrorise us.

“We are not against traditional worship because there is freedom of religion in our constitution. But If you are preparing charms and doing another fetish things to protect kidnappers and armed robbers, we will never allow you to operate here.

“The kidnappers have crossed the line and we are after them now.

“I must doff my heart for the Asagba of Asagba, Prof. Epiphany Azinge who has responded to what we are doing in Anambra State.

“Immediately he discovered that these criminals we are chasing out from Anambra are moving into Asaba, he read his own riot act to them that Asaba will not accommodate them. And he has set machinery in motion to check crime in Asaba.

“That is what a good traditional ruler should do. I want our Anambra traditional rulers to emulate him.”

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