Deportation: Anambra Government is to blame
I had cause to speak on the vexed issue of the relocation of some indigenes of Anambra State from Lagos to Onitsha at a private forum in Lagos last weekend. Based on the facts then available to me I condemned the action of the Lagos State Government (LASG) and also blamed Anambra State Government (ANSG) for resorting to letter writing to President Jonathan each time the issue arose instead of confronting the problem frontally. I had also argued that Anambra State Government should have screened the alleged 72 returnees, identify those from Anambra State and rehabilitate them while returning the non-Anambrarians back to the sender.
Ten years after Anambra Liberation Day
THE clock had just struck 8:47 am on the 10th day of July 2003 when a detachment of heavily armed mobile police men stormed the government house Awka, disarmed security operatives and made their way to the office of the then governor of Anambra State. The police men who were led by late Raphael Igeh the then Assistant Inspector General of Police (ALG) in charge of zone 9 Umuahia, Abia State confiscated the two phones of the then governor and whisked him away. Stories had it that the governor had resigned after being sworn in on may 29th 2003, thanking members of his executive for their assistance.
