Maduako Igbokwe l Wednesday, June 09, 2021
ONITSHA, Nigeria – Anambra State Commissioner for Police, Mr. Chris Owolabi, has stated that about 90 percent of cult-related deaths in Nigeria are not documented . According to him, most parents/guardians of those students involved in cult practices and killed in the process did not want such cases investigated due to their nature.
He warned Nigeria youths, especially, the students to desist from any form of criminal or cult related activity that will ruin their future. Owolabi, stated this during a Peace/Security Summit, organized by National Association of Nigeria Student NANS, in collaboration with the Anambra State Police Command at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka,
The summit had the theme “Importance of Safe Society and The Role of Nigerian Students, Youths in the Security of Our Campuses,” aimed at sensitizing students on the need for proper security in their neighborhood.
Owolabi represented by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in- charge of operations in the state, ACP Emmanuel Ogbuanya noted that cultism had been mother of most crimes committed by the youths in the country .
According to him, the high rate of illegal drug consumption has landed most youths in trouble and early grave. He advised the youths to refrain from the act. He pointed out that most cultists are groomed in the institutions of learning , advising parents to take issue of cultism serious.
According to him, parents must learn to inculcate good and moral values in their children as well as monitor their movements and relations their children keep. He also urged students across institutions of learning in the country to be brave enough to release timely information to security forces in their various states.
Earlier, NANS Senate President, Comrade Chuks Innocent Okafor, said the event was purposely organised to intimate Nigeria student of the danger pose by the insecurity being witnessed in the county.
According to him, security in the country had deteriorated terribly, hence need for youths to step up for solution. He attributed rising crimes among youths to the consumption of hard drugs, urging them to desist from such or risk being destroyed by the act.
Okafor who lamented current security situation in the country especially in the Southeast region, urged government to stop the spate of killings. He also called on leaders to organize national summit where problems of the country would be discussed and addressed.
In his goodwill message, Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof Charles Esimone, said that a lot of lives and future have been truncated owing to the current wave of insecurity in the country. He said, “it is time we advise ourselves and turn from hearers of words to doers of good things. Esimone urged the the youths to heed to advise from Police in their daily living.
Esimone, represented by the Dean Student Affairs, Professor Chinonso Achebe, also advised the students to be security conscious and enjoined them to take security of their lives and their environment serious. Speaking on the theme of the summit, Mr. Obiora Agbasimelo urged the youths to imbibe the spirit of unity, tolerance and accept one another irrespective of social and ethnic background.
While urging the youths to asbtain from violence and play active role in the coming Anambra State governorship election, he advised them to shun and resist from being used as tools in the hands of politicians to execute heinous crimes.
In their separate speeches , the Chairman of the occasion, Chief Stanley Chukwudumeme Okolie and his co-Chairman, Chief Foster Ezenwa Ihejiofor, appreciated the state police command, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Baba Alkali and NANS for organising such an important programme that would promote constant police-community relations in the interest of the state and the nation at large.
