... Comdem the brutal killing spree of Obosi PG and 9 others in Awka on 2nd and 3rd Jan 2023 respectively.
•Says About 91 Kidnappings Took Place From October-December 2022.
The Anambra Youth Vanguard has decried the high degree of crime in cities especially the kidnapping and outright killings of innocent people in the State.
The youth vanguard in a statement released in Awka, the State capital Wednesday aided in the last three months of 2022, from October to December, more than 91 Kidnappings took place in the State, lamenting that some of them resulted in the outright murder of the victims, while others who were lucky paid their way with a huge amount of money as ransom.
Irked by this development, the youth group called for an overhaul of various departments of the State Police Command that have to do with crime esp, especially the Anti-Kidapping Squad.
The group in the s tement signed by their chairman, Bar Nnamdi Onaya, lamented that the State has been under siege by criminal elements and it appears that the security operatives are helpless in confronting these criminals.
The youth group stated id from the investigation they conducted in the State, the entire Anambra South and Anambra central might have been taken over by criminal elements.
It stoutly condemns the brutal murder of Obosi PG and 9 others on the following day Jan 2023
Giving a breakdown of the activities of criminal elements in the Sta, they said in Umeoji, Idemili North alone, there are about four kidnapping gangs, Ideani, three kidnapping gangs, Oba-Mili John in Ojoto, two, Nkpor, Old Road, three, Nnobi-Oraukwu, two, Ez infinite -Uga, three, Oraukwu-Ekwulobia, one, Oraukwu-Uga, two, Obosi, four groups.
Nkpor- Ogidi, Building Material Market three, said the area has so many gangs, says the youth, the entire area is a danger zone.
The other criminal gangs are operating in other parts of the State, lamenting that security operatives in the State are not doing enough like their counterparts in Imo State, who have had breakthroughs in the fight against kidnapping and other criminal activities in the State.
The y called for the immediate removal of t the Commander of, the Anti-Kidapping Squad of the Anambra State Police Command, Patrick Agbazue, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
The group said Agbazue who has been a former Special Anti-Robbery Squad Commander, before it was changed to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Annex, Awkuzu, has been the Anti-Kidapping Commander for about four years.
The group said he should give way for other officers to try their best, lamenting that his Local Government Area, Ihiala, is the worst hit by criminal activities with high scale criminal activities going daily in the local government unchallenged.
It unequivocally condemns the recent alleged auctioning of nine (9) cars said to have been recovered by the Ogidi police division without consulting the owners and following due process as the law demands and calls on for the immediate reversal and recovery of the said vehicle with immediate effect and hand same over to the rightful owners inline with the extant laws.
They decried that the Police Headquarters in Ihiala Local Government Area was just a few days ago razed down by criminals without adequate response from security operatives.
The Anambra Youth Vanguard said the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, should replace him with another capable officer who will reinvigorate the fight against criminals in the State, especially kidnappings, car snatching among other high-profile criminal activities and change from defensive crime-fighting method to an offensive strategy, the group warned
