{"id":99402,"date":"2022-09-19T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99402"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:34:08","slug":"all-gunmen-caught-in-anambra-are-igbo-says-soludo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/all-gunmen-caught-in-anambra-are-igbo-says-soludo\/","title":{"rendered":"All gunmen caught in Anambra are Igbo, says Soludo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, says all the gunmen caught in the state so far are indigenes of the South East.<\/div>\n
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Soludo said this on Sunday when he featured on Sunday Politics, a current affairs programme on Channels Television.<\/div>\n
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Anambra, in recent months, has been targeted by gunmen who attack residents, security operatives and public infrastructure.<\/div>\n
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On September 11, the convoy of Ifeanyi Ubah, lawmaker representing Anambra south senatorial district, was attacked by gunmen at Nkwo Enugu Ukwu, in Njikoka LGA of Anambra.<\/div>\n
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Police officers and some aides of the senator were killed in the attack.<\/div>\n
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Asked on the programme to comment on the identity of such attackers, who are often referred to as \u201cunknown gunmen\u201d, the governor said they are known.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThey are plain criminals, nothing else,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is lucrative criminality and idolatry. These are the two things that have come with it.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnambra is, without a doubt, the richest state in the South-east. So, this is the place where kidnapping has the highest value. So, you have the highest concentration here.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThey are not unknown gunmen. They are unknown to the extent that maybe they are not caught immediately in the act, but I can tell you that we have been catching quite a lot of them and they know that something is happening and that Anambra is not safe for them. Never again.<\/div>\n
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\u201cLet me be clear about this. 100 percent of all the people that we have caught are Igbos. There is no one who has somebody invading from somewhere. It is 100 percent Igbos on Igbos.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe first set of people we caught were 100 percent Igbos from other South-east states and none from Anambra.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBut as we went on, we then discovered that a whole lot of the youths who have been taken to these bushes that got indoctrinated and initiated into all these kinds of things also happen to be citizens of Anambra state or indigenes of Anambra.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The governor also said his administration is doing everything possible, including using the \u201cstick and carrot\u201d approach, in tackling criminality in the state.<\/div>\n
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He said \u201crelative peace\u201d has returned to the state because his administration came into power \u201cvery determined\u201d to eliminate criminals.<\/div>\n
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\u201cTheir camps are being decimated. It won\u2019t be too long before we pin them down,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnambra has been quite relatively peaceful. We are pursuing this agenda. Compared to many other places in Nigeria, I\u2019ll dare to say \u2014 if we are to have the statistics for the past three months \u2014 I think Anambra will compete favourably as one of the safest comparatively.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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