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Anambra Buoyed To Step-Up Games For Enhance Security Goals

Cross Section of Participants 
In bid to achieve sustainable successes recorded in the fight against insecurity and other social vices in Anambra state, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Hassan Karma has urged residents to report any event questionable, to security agencies nearest to them.

Cross Section of Participants  and respondents 
 He solicits for cooperation between the people and the security agencies to enhance security safety that is currently being experienced in the state.
He stated this at the joint Anambra State security summit town hall meeting held in Awka, Anambra state capital,  with the theme: security Awareness Dialogue, appealed to the people to imbibe the culture of security consciousness at all time to forestall emergencies.
Cross Section of Participants 
 “Governor Obiano has been very proactive prior this time, he foresaw  this and se up a committee comprising members of the Fulani Herdsmen headed by the Seriki  Fulani, Some Prominent Igwes, headed by the Igwe of Aguleri and some security agencies that I am made the chairman of the committee”.
“We have met severally when there were some challenges where herdsmen had entered into some farm lands, and their cow was found to have destroyed their crops and we have been recording successes with this strategy since the inception of this administration”.
The Anambra police scribe also reiterated the level of preparedness the state has been to arrest insecurity situation and urged residents to avail the security agencies with relevant information to work with in the bid to nip any insecurity challenge arises from any cause in the state.
“following the last incident in Ukpabi-Nimbo   community of sleepy small town in Uzo-Uwani LGA of  Enugu state, we have quickly set up a task force as we speak  now, who have been deployed to man the borders that leads to neighbouring states, thorugh Amansea, to the North, Ayanmaelum Onitsha to the South, Uga, and other major entry points to be able to efficiently man the entry and exit  of man and equipment in Anambra state”.   He disclosed.
He urged visitors’ entry the state to be law abiding and eschew acts inimical to the health of the state: If anyone is entering  Anambra state, in peace, he or she is welcome, but if you are coming to destroy people crops and foment any crime, definitely you will be apprehended”.
“We hereby called on the public to report anywhere they noticed any trouble maker they discover immediately to the police”.
“I also want to urge the people not to take laws into their hands, we should not be =quick to conclude that every herdsman is a killer, if that is the issue, we will be missing the point”. Karma Charged.
In their separate remarks, the commandant of Anambra state National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA. Mr. Sule Momodu and his  Federal Road Safety Counterpart FRSC, sector commander of the road safety corps, Mr. Sunday Ajayi, enumerated achievements recorded under this administration and assured of their willingness to provide adequate security of lives and properties in Anambra state.
The town hall meeting had in attendance, members of civil society organizations, clergymen, market association representative, civil servants, principals and heads of schools as well as artisans and business owners.
                                          
                        Representative of Financial industry at the security summit in Awka
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