By Okechukwu Onuegbu
African Action Congress (AAC), on Wednesday, vowed not to allow governor Chukwuma Soludo to continue playing lips service to insecurity in Anambra State while people continue to die in their numbers.
Anambra State has been besieged with insecurity since three years ago with many been kidnapped or killed after paying ransom, including cult killings and others.
As a result, the State Chairperson of AAC, Comrade Chioma Ifemeludike, at a press conference in Awka, Anambra State capital, expressed displeasure over the development and urged the governor and law enforcement agents to wake up.
According to Ifemeludike, the party would no longer keep quiet while the citizens lives were wasted for nothing, because lives were valuable to them and no meaningful development would be attained in atmosphere of kidnapping, killings and robbery currently ravaging the State.
She said her party would mobilise their members and other citizenry to launch social media campaigns geared towards mobilising the populace to take ownership of the security and secure Anambra State from crimes and criminalities.
"These men of the underworld have caused mayhem, pain and suffering to the
physical, financial and emotional well-being of the good, hardworking and law abiding citizens of the state. This menace is suffocating and almost crippling business activities in the state.
"Anambra State known as the light of the nation seems to be struggling with darkness of insecurity and fear of the unknown terror gangs. It has gotten so bad that people now avoid to travel or disguise when they are visiting homes. This is totally unacceptable and we hold the government of Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo responsible as the chief Executive in the state whose major duty is to secure lives.
"We urge governor Soludo to take charge and be proactive with matters that affect security of lives in the state as this is the bedrock of commercial activities, growth and development in our dear state. The mental and psychological state of Anambra populace is our utmost interest and we will do anything and everything in our possible best to make sure our people are safe and sound.
"We will defend our ancestral lands against intruders. We will not run away from unscrupulous elements both the official and unofficial, the masked and unmasked, the ones on uniform and the ones running criminal network. We warn that we will use every tool available to us.
"The African Action Congress, Anambra state chapter highlights the major issues of insecurity in Anambra state right after the state Governor declared a state of emergence which seems like a mere political statement or lip service due to government's inability to effect any obvious change in securing lives of Ndi Anambra which is their utmost responsibility.
"In recent times, villages and communities in Anambra State have been ransacked and invaded by what we know today as unknown gun men, faceless men who have terrorised, oppressed, kidnapped in most cases murdered innocent citizens in cold. The once bubbling state and nightlife environment where commuters and visitors travelled at anytime of the day without any fear especially during the festive seasons have now come to an abrupt end," she lamented.