Maduako Igbokwe l Tuesday, March 22, 2022
ONITSHA, Nigeria – Youths under the aegis of ‘Youth Volunteer’ in Anambra State have declared war on touts and criminal terrorising the state.
The group vowed to fight to restore peace and sanity in the state. The leader of the group, Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu at a briefing in Onitsha on Tuesday, said the group would focused on traffic surveillance and monitoring of activities in the state.
He added that they would assist the state government and security agencies to sanitize every corner of the state and get rid of touts that have been tormenting the state in the past.
According to him, the youths decided to take up the action in response to Governor Charles Soludo’s inaugural “pronouncement on touting and other criminal activities in the state. He said that they are out to enforce order of the commissioner of police in the state, CP Echeng Echeng.
“We the Anambra Youths Volunteers hereby declare our resolve to assist the state government and the security agencies in checking these youth-prone excesses. We will end all criminal activities. No more snatching of handbags, phones and personal belongings of innocent citizens. We are going to assist and ensure that peace, law and order are restored in the state, “he said.
Okpalaezeukwu also admonished youths engaging in touting and other unlawful activities in Anambra to desist, noting that the group would not fail to use the full weight of the Mobile Courts established by the new administration to deal ruthlessly with any hoodlum caught terrorizing the state in any form.
He further stated that the group was determined to rehabilitate, rebrand and reintegrate youths who had resorted to touting, criminal activities and other social vices as means of survival in the state.
