Plot To Disarm Agunechemba Deepens As YPP Guber Candidate, Chukwuma, Dares Soludo

By Okey Maduforo

The plot to disarm the Agunechemba Security Squad in Anambra state was, on Friday, made bold when the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, Sir Paul Chukwuma and his running mate Chief Uzu Ukagbue led a protest match through the Nnamdi Azikiwe Avenue Awka against the assault on the corp member of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC.

The protest which brought Awka Capital City to a stand still had over 500 youths who displayed their unhappiness over the incident.

According to Sir Paul Chukwuma the action of the Agunechemba Security Squad is a show of brigandage and disrespect to the right of Nigerian citizens as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, adding that the level of insecurity in the state leaves much to be desired.

The protesters who ended up at the Anambra Police Command were addressed by the Deputy Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Ezikel, who on behalf of the Commissioner of Police Ikioye Orutugu addressed them promising to look into their demands.

Speaking during the protest Sir Paul Chukwuma disclosed that the police had told them that the suspect were actually arrested and in custody while investigation is going on. 

"They also promised us that they will make their findings public. We also raised the issue of local police bearing prohibited arms.

"The police have assured and we must give them the benefit of doubt to do their investigation. One about these is that most we raise are already before them, they already known to them. The level of criminality perpetuated by this organization is appalling.

"We want the police to come public with their findings, it is not about Paul Chukwuma, it is about Anambra people and Nigerians at a whole. 

"The NYSC corps members in Anambra state are from different parts of the country and Nigerians are watching to see whether there are credible people in Anambra State who will rise up against this ill. That is what we are doing today.

 "Besides it is the business of the governor to watch out what he put in place, he is the one that gives fait and this inputs that these boys are causing havoc in Anambra State.

"We are also as Anambra people insisting that the security agency in the state to do their jobs. They need funds, resource, they need gadgets but the state government has refused to make this fund available to them. I'm very much aware that the president of this country has done all within his power to make funds available to all states. Under the president, enough money have been becoming to Anambra State to fund the homeland.

"What is our state government doing with these money. Ndi Anambra have been worried. We cannot as ndi Anambra keep quiet and that is what we are doing today. Let us a safe homeland, we don't want where parents will stopping their children from being posted to Anambra State."

The Deputy Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Ezikel, told the protesters that the police had heard them.