Chaos In Onitsha As Anti-Touting Squads Kidnap Woman, Vigilante

Chaos In Onitsha As Anti-Touting Squads Kidnap Woman, Vigilante

Chaos In Onitsha As Anti-Touting Squads Allegedly Abduct Woman, Vigilante Operatives

Pandamonium erupted withinside the Awada region of the economic metropolis of Onitsha, Anambra state, following the alleged invasion of the workplace of Awada Central Landlords Association through a mixed group of Special Anti-Touting Squad, SASA and Agunechemba Squad who allegedly kidnapped a girl clerk and Vigilante operatives connected to the Awada Central landlords affiliation .

In Anambra state, the SASA guys are called Ndi Akaodo (Pestle Boys) due to the fact their Hummer buses patrol streets and highways whilst armed with pestles and machetes.

The SASA/Agunechemba mixed group additionally allegedly destroyed homes really well worth tens of thousands and thousands of naira, which include Vigilante vehicles, motorcycles, workplace doorways , and windows, and then they have been stated to have bolted away with attack English Pump Action rifles, telecellsmartphone handsets, protection devices and an unspecified amount of cash strolling into hundreds of naira belonging to the landlords affiliation and the safety operatives.

The alleged invasion, abduction, destruction, and carting away in their palms and different devices , consistent with the source, accompanied a scuffle among the indignant citizens of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, who allegedly mistook them for kidnappers.

On one side, the citizens of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, and the Vigilante operatives connected to the Awada Central Landlords Association have been on the middle of the scuffle, and at the different , the SASA squad become on the alternative side.

According to the Chief Security Officer, CSO of the Awada landlords affiliation , Uchechukwu Jude Ukachi, “The indignant avenue boys attacked the SASA guys in any other case called (Akaodo) (Pestle boys) in Osumoghu protection sector, and while my guys who’re the Awada crucial vigilantes have been known as and knowledgeable approximately the assault , I advised my Commander, Chukwuemeka Okoye to ship his boys and after they went there, they found that the road boys have been changing banters with the Akaodo boys.”

When they noticed my vigilante guys who had come to understand their project in Awada, the Akaodo boys deserted the road boys who have been having an altercation with them and confronted my guys to invite them approximately their project in Awada.”

“At once, the Akaodo boys released a violent assault on my guys ; my Commander rushed to the scene and eliminated the keys in their Hummer bus, and requested my boys to move again to the workplace .”

“The commander back and gave me the state of affairs record whilst handing me the Hummer bus key.

When I noticed it become a key to an legitimate automobile , I rushed to the scene to present them again their automobile key however did now no longer see any of them in the car.

“When I requested the human beings across the region , they advised me that every one the Akaodo boys deserted their Hummer bus and fled while the indignant avenue boys intensified the assault towards them.”

“I advised them that if any of them come again to the automobile , they must inform them that I, the CSO Awada, requested them to return back and gather their key from our workplace , and I went again to the workplace .”

“My query now could be how did this count challenge my workplace that warrants Operation Udo Ga Achi to accompany the Akaodo boys to our workplace to smash everything, loot, and abduct my guys ?”

“They even went to the acute through hiking upstairs to the workplace of Awada Central Landlords Association to interrupt the doorways and ransacked all nooks and crannies.”

“If I may also ask again. How did the assault released towards the Akaodo boys through Awada Street Boys someplace at Orsumoghu Street challenge me and my guys that warranted Operation Udo-Ga-Achi squad to return back to our workplace to smash and loot?’ I suppose it’s miles a pure, calculated strive and conspiracy designed to garbage the call of my company, Jufuso Security Agency.”

Ukachi, who’s the Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the Jufuso Security Agency, a Police Registered outfit primarily based totally in Anambra state, said that citizens of Orsumoghu Street revolted towards the lady ’s arrest due to the fact consistent with them, the SASA guys had no proper to arrest a lady due to the fact her husband is simply accused of being a drug peddler, moreso, while the SASA guys have been being accused of frequenting the region with tricycles, harass and extort the citizens .

“When I visited the scene and couldn’t discover any of the SASA guys round to go back their automobile key, I speedy known as the Divisional Police Officer at Awada Police Division, however his telecellsmartphone become now no longer connecting, and I then known as the Divisional Crime Officer, DCO and narrated the incident to him and he advised me that the SASA guys have been threatening to return back and assault the vigilante devices in Awada.”

After listening to from the DCO that SASA guys stated they might come to assault us, I referred to as my guys and informed them now no longer to go back the assault or shoot anybody in the event that they got here , and by the point I got here again to the workplace , behold, the SASA guys had invaded and unleashed the mayhem.”

“On informing the DCO that the SASA guys had ultimately attacked my guys , he rushed to the scene, took stock of the extent of damages achieved to Awada Central Landlords Association Office, and left.

“During the invasion, the blended crew of Akaodo and Operation-Udo-Ga-Achi broke into the secretary’s workplace , economic secretary’s workplace , and the cashier’s workplace , ransacking the drawers and taking a massive amount of money belonging to the landlords affiliation for my part and collectively.”

“They kidnapped of our guys , whose names are Jideofor Ozoemenam and Chinedu Okonkwo, and the female cashier additionally referred to as Chinwe and drove off, pronouncing that they might come again for some other spherical of assault and they might be frequenting the assaults on us till we’re disbanded.”

At the time of submitting this report, Ukachi advised journalists that most effective the female cashier were launched through the SASA guys the various 3 abductees, even as the 2 different sufferers who had been speculated to were battered through the kidnappers had been nevertheless of their custody.

Lamenting that the SASA guys are nevertheless threatening to level a comeback, Ukachi warned that he might now no longer take a seat down again and watch them attacking his guys once more with out returning hearthplace for hearthplace this time around.

Also speaking, Vice Chairman of Awada Central Landlords Association, Chief Walter Ohiri who spoke on behalf of the President, Chief Patrick Oyeduba (Obi Ebubediike), stated the Orsumoghu Street citizens had been provoked through the way with which those SASA guys invade the vicinity regularly to harass, intimidate and arrest harmless humans most effective to launch them after extorting as a great deal as N150,000; N200,000; N300,000 and N400,000 because the case might also additionally be.

The commander of Awada Landlords’ safety outfit and his assistant additionally advised newsmen that the SASA guys accrued their telephones and lots of different safety devices even as leaving their workplace after wrecking all of the havoc.

In his speech, the Commander of the Orsumoghu Street Vigilante unit, Awada, Chibuike Alfred, advised newsmen that the SASA guys stormed their workplace with Agunechemba, shouting, “No extra safety in Awada from today. ” They ransacked each corner and cranny and made away with their bulletproof vests, torchlights, machetes, and different safety devices belonging to the unit.

But in a reaction, the Administrative Officer of SASA, who spoke to journalists in his workplace gate on nameless condition, admitted that his guys really ransacked Awada Landlords workplace searching for their legitimate automobile key, which their safety operatives seized, including that the safety operatives had been the primary to assault and inflict grievous accidents on SASA guys , the usage of their gun butts and machetes.

He, however, denied abducting any character or humans from the Vigilante workplace .

The country Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Tochuckwu Ikenga, who showed the incident, stated the police have waded into the problem and restored calmness, whilst he disclosed that the police have engaged stakeholders to deliver the 3 governmental companies collectively for a spherical desk dialogue and amicable settlement.