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Late Igwe Oliver Chike Nnaji, the traditional ruler of Ogwu-Aniocha
BY SUNNY A. DAVID, AWKA
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2023 House of Representatives election for Ogbaru Federal Constituency, Sir. Arinzechukwu Awogu, on Thursday met with the new State Director of DSS, Mr. Sanusi Abubakar, on the disturbing situation in Ogwu-Aniocha Community.
The former Chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area, Sir. Awogu paid a courtesy call on the new State DSS Boss presented the opportunity to demand for a concerted effort to arresting the total breakdown of law and order in the oil bearing Community of Ogwu-Aniocha.
He said that the inhabitants of the Community have been forced out of their homes by the crisis and have become refugees in neighbouring communities.
Sir. Awogu further informed that the children of Ogwu-Aniocha Community have been out of school for over two years with its attendant consequences of setting the Community back educationally.
“The people of Ogwu-Aniocha are not only homeless but are scattered in strange lands while desolation is gradually consuming the entire Community.
“Basic needs such as roads, electricity, healthcare and so on are now secondary as the people have to be alive first to be able to seek and to enjoy those basic needs which portray government’s presence which the Community grossly lack anyway.”
The crisis according to the former Chairman, gave rise to a few never-do-wells in the Community to populate their ranks with unknown gunmen, who now operate in the Community without restrictions.
“Ogwu-Aniocha has become one big killing field, the unreported killings going on in Ogwu-Aniocha at the moment will shock the world when eventually heads are counted.
“Dead bodies litter the Community and many more are seen floating on the Ulasi river. At this level of our human advancement, we mustn’t watch in akimbo and allow the Community wallow in self-destruction.”
He maintained that Government should step in to save the Community. He called for the setting up of Commission of Enquiry to unravel the many connections to the protracted crisis in the Community with the view to setting the path to the return of peace in Ogwu-Aniocha, including the abduction and disappearance of Igwe Oliver Chike Nnaji, the traditional ruler of Ogwu-Aniocha.
“The DSS “intelligence report” has a way of awakening the consciousness of the government to a potential danger, the Ogwu-Aniocha situation is a real potential danger as it could become Anambra’s version of Sambisa forest where criminal elements control and from where terror is exported and unleashed on the wider society.”
The State Director of DSS, Mr. Sanusi, who has barely spent days in office assured the former Council Boss that he will take the restoration of peace in Ogwu-Aniocha and ending the protracted crisis as a priority and requested for the cooperation of the stakeholders and the people of Ogwu-Aniocha.
Meanwhile, the people of Ogwu-Aniocha have said that what they seek is government’s attention and presence which will not only give hope but restore confidence in the people but lamented that Government’s only interest in their Community is the oil.
“Instead of calling for meeting on how to restore the Community, government is busy holding meeting after meeting on crude oil in the same Community, the only crime of over 80% of the Community defenseless inhabitants was not taking laws into their hands against the few unpatriotic hoodlums thereby fleeing from their homes hoping that government will protect the lives and properties as promised but here we are with no shelter surviving in trauma and hopelessness,” lamented a concerned Ogwu-Aniocha indigene.
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