By Okechukwu Onuegbu
The Anambra State Police Commissioner, Mr Aderemi Adeoye, Tuesday, said that some unnamed security and crime fighters in the State were the sponsor of women who recently protested naked in Awka.
Adeoye, who stated this while receiving the Ultimate Business Women And Farmers Association of Nigeria ( UBWFAN) who were in his office, explained that Anambra women were industrious and too busy to engage on such despicable act.
He commended UBWFAN, noting that he would continue to identify with such genuine organisation.
"Some people went to town using some people to drive home their inordinate demands and such actions are not welcomed in Anambra state," he noted.
Earlier, the National Coordinator of UBWFAN, Hon. Nkiru Nwagbo, hailed the police for professional ways they managed the situation.
" Going by our painstaking investigation it has been discovered that those women are not from Anambra state but some prostitutes recruited from outside the state and paid to go on a protest"
"We want to use this opportunity to state that Anambra women are well trained, a highly cultured and well mannered to reduce themselves to this act of lunacy" she said.
Nwagbo also advised Anambra women not to be used by desperate elements in the state who are out for their selfish gains insisting that the women are on the receiving end of the entire show of shame creating a wrong impression about women in the state.
She noted that crime fighting has received great attention in the state to the extent that the activities of the unknown gunmen and miscreants have been tackled with superlative results in the affected eight local government areas of Anambra state.
"Also the confidence of the general public on the Command has been restored as people now go about their lawful duties without fear or apprehension to the glory of God".
Speaking on the association's program of events next two months the President Hon Nwagbo noted that the function would attract women from the twenty one local government areas of the state adding that the body has since inception been supportive to women and children through charity activities and Skill acquisition which have been far reaching.