BY Raymond Ozoji
, Awka
Police in Anambra
state yesterday paraded 30 people arrested for various crimes ranging from car
snatching, kidnapping, murder and cultism.
The Commissioner
of Police in Anambra state Mr. Hassan Karma said the arrest of the criminals
mostly from in Obosi in Idemili local government council of Anambra state was
effected by a combined operation of
police, Army, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) who were “united in
seeing that Anambra people sleep with two eyes closed”.
Karma praised the
effort of the combined force and counseled other states to emulate from the
combined energy of the combined force for effective crime fighting.
Among those
arrested were one man kidnapper, car snatching syndicates, a murderer a gang
that specialize in vandalizing telecommunication masts and 19 student cultists,
mostly belong to Vikin from Nnamdi Azikiwe university, Awka and Federal
Polytechnic, Oko.
Among items
recovered from the cultists were ten locally made pistols which police said
were usually put to other uses than cultism initiation, ten axes, ten bags of Indian hemp, a drum,
black caps, red candles and mobile phones believed to have been snatched from
people.
Karma advised
other students to learn from the experience of those caught and say no to
cultism. He said that Obosi is the headquarters of secret cult in Anambra state
and that police took time to arrest all the ring leaders of the cult groups
some of who ran to other states.
They are now in
prison custody, he said.
Also, the police
brought some of the 48 repentant cultists who Karma said volunteered to
renounce their membership of different cult groups.
He praised the
state Governor, Willie Obiano who he said has given them every support to
succeed in rime fighting.
According to
Karma, the 2014 Christmas celebration in Anambra state was very peaceful and
the security men wanted this year’s Christmas to be even more peaceful.
Also speaking,
the President General of Obosi town Mr.Dan Igbokwubili praised the police for
raiding the community of criminal elements who have prevented the citizens of
the town from visiting home.
Igbokwubili said
that Obosi is now free from criminal elements and urged his people to feel free
to visit home because they are now safe.
Karma also
confirmed that there was an attack on the oil producing community of Ezi Agulu
Out where two persons working in their farm were killed .