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Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by FreeStuffsNG: 9:32pm On May 17, 2023
Soludo: When I took office, 8 LGAs were controlled by criminals under guise of agitations

Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, says eight LGAs in the state were under siege by hoodlums when he assumed office.

Soludo spoke on Tuesday at the induction organised by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for governors-elect at the presidential villa, Abuja.

In recent years, the south-east has been grappling with insecurity characterised by killings and abductions linked to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed separatist group.

However, IPOB has repeatedly denied being responsible for the attacks, insisting that its self-determination agenda is done peacefully.

Soludo said he corrected the “dysfunctional” security system in the state and librated the LGAs.

He said governors need a strong and independent security system to tackle insecurity in their domains.

I think for those of us who are governors and the governors-elect, a major concern that we need to get onto is the national security architecture,” he said.

“How do we hope to survive in a dysfunctional system because the architecture is dysfunctional? And it is such an architecture that the problems we face are very local, requiring our local actions, but the instrument is out there.

“The other thing is funding in the whole architecture. The federal government, which has a near monopoly on these agencies, cannot fund them. And then they have to foist on the states to be the ones to provide the funding but which is also not a very accountable system.

“For me, I’m just a one-year-old baby on the job. Before I assumed office, it was so clear to me about the nature of the functionality and how we must cope to survive.

“We got to revive and recreate our state strike force vigilante service which had become awesome in terms of their work and then set up approaches to the non-kinetic approaches by calling on all those in the bush. Because when I assumed office, eight local governments in Anambra were totally under siege taken over by these hoodlums in the bushes, criminals, kidnappers and so on masquerading under the guise of agitation and all of that.


Soludo said his administration has been decisive in going after criminals who commit havoc on the pretence of agitation.

“And part of what we had to do very decisively with a multilateral approach, was to challenge the thesis. The main argument that was fueling people hiding under this agitation was to commit all kinds of criminality. We have to call them out as plain criminals, kidnappers who are kidnapping for ransom. And until that was called out, you can’t solve a problem you haven’t identified,” he said.

“We set up what we’ll call the truth, justice, and peace commission. We had even a security trust fund which mobilises the masses and well-meaning individuals donating very massively to it. We launched an operation getting everybody involved.“

SECURITY AGENCIES NEED MORE FUNDING’

Also speaking, Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, said security agencies need improved funding to adequately tackle insecurity.

“I took time to study various security challenges and the type that is prevalent in the south-east, particularly in Imo state where I come from, may not be the same thing as the kind of security challenges in Anambra state, upto Enugu state and Ebonyi,” he said.

“But the common problem I have been able to see is the funding gaps among the agencies.
So, in order not to waste our time on too much monitoring of the state governments, if we can tackle the funding gap that exists among these security agencies and fund them early enough, I think as a matter of fact, the idea of having a general without a troop will disappear.”

Uzodimma also said the federal and state governments must synergise in addressing insecurity.

“So there’s a need for a constructive partnership and operational relationship between the federal government, sub-national and local authorities. As long as we’re able to forge this relationship, I am very sure that the current insecurity will disappear,” he said.

https://www.thecable.ng/soludo-when-i-took-office-8-lgas-were-controlled-by-criminals-under-guise-of-agitations/amp

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by FreeStuffsNG: 9:33pm On May 17, 2023
He needs to do more. That unfortunate killing of US embassy officials is a testament that Anambra is not safe yet.

Anambra is not safe ,it is not safe for foreigners and foreign investments and it is quite unfortunate.

All serious foreign investors should quit places that are hostile to foreigners and investments like Anambra and Akwa Ibom that its youth burnt down multi million dollar coconut Plantation investments and bring their investments to Yorubaland untll these hostile regions are ready and safe for others.


We need those investors and investments to stay in Nigeria and here in Lagos and Yorubaland, our land will bless their investments for as long as they do not hate us and do not dabble into our politics.

One does not know who to believe again for Mondays sit at home in Anambra. As the news reports stand, it is quite unfortunate to note that those US embassy officials got killed for not sitting at home on Monday.

Prof Soludo is barely a year in office yet it is like all his predecessors left Anambra in a complete mess.
Check my signature for free stuffs!

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by olasaad(f): 9:34pm On May 17, 2023
Lol so Anambra is like Borno

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by manutdrichie(m): 9:40pm On May 17, 2023
Only Adeleke is aligning with the masses for now, Soludo can continue acting drama

We are praying for Alex Otti not to join the leaque of unserious governors In Nigeria

By fire by force Nigeria must get better

Osun is doing well for now because they rejected anything Tinubu

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by gidgiddy: 9:41pm On May 17, 2023
Im an Anambra man and if Soludo actually said that 8 LGA's in Anambra were being controlled by criminals, then he has lost it

Which LGA? There is no LGA controlled by criminals in the South East, what we have is criminality same as anywhere else, even much worse in some places where bandits are collecting tax

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by FreeStuffsNG: 9:42pm On May 17, 2023
gidgiddy:
Im an Anambra man and if Soludo actually said that 8 LGA's in Anambra were being controlled by criminals, then he has lost it

Which LGA? There is no LGA controlled by criminals in the South East, what we have is criminality same as anywhere else
The ones that attacked US officials on Monday nko?

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Goodday90(m): 9:43pm On May 17, 2023
Soludo talks too much and have little to show for his basket mouth
Always demolishing and never building,the road to his village is still how Obi left it

Worse Governor after Mbadinuju

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Ever8090: 9:47pm On May 17, 2023
gidgiddy:
Im an Anambra man and if Soludo actually said that 8 LGA's in Anambra were being controlled by criminals, then he has lost it

Which LGA? There is no LGA controlled by criminals in the South East, what we have is criminality same as anywhere else
what is the difference between criminality and criminals?....me no too go school no vex ...

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by MXrep: 10:06pm On May 17, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:
He needs to do more. That unfortunate killing of US embassy officials is a testament that Anambra is not safe yet. Anambra is not safe and it is quite unfortunate.
One does not know who to believe again for Mondays sit at home in Anambra.
Soludo is barely a year in office yet it is like all his predecessors left Anambra in a mess.
Soludo took over from Obiano, I hope you know. Because you are trying to rope Peter Obi into it. Secondly, the insecurity occurs at the imo boundary (Orlu axis). Imo is ruled by APC and is being used by enemies of SE

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by MXrep: 10:10pm On May 17, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:

The ones that attacked US officials on Monday nko?
The attack was on Tuesday not Monday. Secondly, to h3ll with US official, nothing special about them, thirdly, attack by criminal doesn't mean the criminal control the area. Dud any criminal set up any form of government like we have in Kaduna and Niger states? Criminal attack SW even more

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by justified007: 10:22pm On May 17, 2023
MXrep:

The attack was on Monday not Tuesday. Secondly, to h3ll with US official, nothing special about them, thirdly, attack by criminal doesn't mean the criminal control the area. Dud any criminal set up any form of government like we have in Kaduna and Niger states? Criminal attack SW even more




People were killed unjustly and you're saying to hell with them ? What kind of an animal are you socalled obidients ?

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by LeoDeKing: 10:37pm On May 17, 2023
Gov Charles Soludo is just trying to be diplomatic so pandora Obituary wouldn't view it that his boys are being displaced from their captured territory..

When Soludo said "criminals", what he actually meant is ipob terrorists.

Having said that, ipob terrorists were actually in control of 8 LGA when gov Charles Soludo took over and it appears he is almost done displacing them.

Little wonder ipob terrorists hate Charles Soludo like shyte.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Ireportlive: 4:33am On May 18, 2023
cool



I was genuinely rooting for Soludo as next Igbo President of Nigeria but this IPOB idiots won't let him shine like he did as CBN Governor



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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Karemarealty288(m): 5:46am On May 18, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:

The ones that attacked US officials on Monday nko?

Random attack....Soludo is trying to blame Obiano now..hmmm. he should come clean and mention the 8 LGAs controlled be criminals. So taxes were imposed and collected by criminal elements?

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by obembet(f): 8:04am On May 18, 2023
they only focus on the others problem 😂😂

Maybe they think we will swap region one day.

Home is home

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 8:04am On May 18, 2023
Wahala
The irony
We no hear as citizens from there dey complain, person Sidon one place dey talk when people fit comot and when people fit tie demselves Sidon for house, Dem no complain...

But when Dem go person house, Dem go dey complain of tout, and agbero and any small thing,

Charity no dey everly begin for them their home.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Praktikals1000: 8:05am On May 18, 2023
This is the type of Igbo man we want at the presidential level. Not the criminal with a transgender voice.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Tayorshd87: 8:05am On May 18, 2023
Obidient extended family in the pit of hell 😂😆

So who care Abt those criminals

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by zoedew: 8:06am On May 18, 2023

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by MorataFC: 8:06am On May 18, 2023
olasaad:
Lol so Anambra is like Borno
grin grin grin

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Nobody: 8:06am On May 18, 2023
Well done, sir. More grace. Meanwhile:



Nnamani And Igbo’s Uncharted Political Future

By

Jide Oluwajuyitan

May 18, 2023

Search for power through exploitation of the innermost fears of a group in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation like Nigeria will remain elusive. That much we saw with the defeat of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi in this year’s presidential election. I think Peter Obi’s rebuke by Chimaroke Nnamani, former governor of Enugu State over what he described as his “devious opium served to Christians within sections of Nigeria and to Igbo domiciled in different sections of Nigeria which in his opinion has now set “Igbo political trajectory back 24 years” serves as a sad reminder for those who in future might want to follow Obi’s path.

However, the credit for “deflowering the virgin innocence of political patriotism and nationalism in Nigeria belongs to Obi’s Igbo illustrious forbears. He and Igbo current inheritors of old prejudices are merely waging their forbear’s uncompleted war.

It all started when Zik as President of Igbo State Union, launched in 1943, sowed the seed of Igbo nationalism when he declared “it would appear that the God of Africa has specially created the Igbo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of the ages . . . The martial prowess of the Ibo nation at all stages of human history has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to the role of preserver”. That Zik’s fiery speech was to set the stage for Igbo’s many battles, first against weaker neighbours and later against the other two dominant groups, the Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani.

The Igbo battle against Yoruba interest started with the launching of Egbe Omo Oduduwa in 1948, five clear years after inauguration of Igbo Federal Union. Some of the Yoruba aristocrats involved in the formation were Sir Adeyemo Alakija, Dr Akinola Maja, Sir Kofo Abayomi Chief Bode Thomas, Chief H O Davies and Dr Akanni Doherty.  Strangely, Zik and his Igbo leaders who saw the Egbe’s inauguration as an affront promptly labelled it ‘enemy of Igbo and 27m Nigerians’. According to September 8, 1948 West African Pilot editorial, “The Egbe Omo Oduduwa must be crushed to the earth . . . There is no going back until the fascist organization of Sir Adeyemo Alakija has been dismembered”. This was followed by physical assaults on the persons of the leaders of the Egbe and damage to the houses and other properties of some of them”.

Then the rivalry between Igbo and Yoruba took a new turn. Lagos had provided the political and economic platforms through which Zik, the adopted son of Herbert Macaulay and Lagos’ white cap chiefs, attained prominence. But perhaps on account of his hostility towards Yoruba interest, Yoruba’s fractious political leaders buried their differences in 1952 to enable the AG led by Obafemi Awolowo form a government. For deciding to carry their own destiny in their own hands, Zik and his supporters labelled Awolowo and the Yoruba tribalists.

Fighting their forbears’ battle, Igbo political leaders mobilized against Awolowo’s 1959 prime ministerial ambition just as they did against his 1979 presidential contest even with an Igbo vice presidential candidate. The battle of Igbo against Yoruba interests only got worse in 1993 when MKO Abiola, despite winning a landslide victory across the country, secured only one state from the east.  The battle went on with Arthur Nzeribe issuing a public statement where he made it clear that he and the Igbo people were opposed to Yoruba presidency.  Abiola’s pan Nigeria mandate was eventually annulled and replaced with an illegal interim contraption. His heroic battle to reclaim his mandate while in Abacha’s detention was frustrated by Igbo leaders including Odumegwu Ojukwu who served as Abacha’s special envoy to Europe for the sole purpose of de-marketing MKO Abiola. In 1999, as against Olu Falae, Yoruba’s mainstream candidate, Igbo leaders settled for Obasanjo, an imposition of the northern hegemonic class.

In the race for the 2023 election, the battle against Bola Tinubu by Igbo leaders, their media and unquestioning Obidients have been no less vicious. Following his victory, agenda of Igbo elders, Igbo intellectuals and Obimedia was to try to delegitimize his victory.

Igbo battles with the Fulani hegemonic ruling class from the north with whom they share a common world outlook on how Nigeria should be run has been no less vicious. Igbo as the beautiful bride has always found their Fulani suitor irresistible. Their 1959 (NPC/NCNC) alliance was designed to taunt and hurt Yoruba leadership who had offered to serve under Zik leadership. But trouble started with Ahmadu Bello’s northernization policy that saw to the exit of all Igbo from northern bureaucracy.  Their marriage of convenience finally collapsed following the disputed 1962/3 census.

Following the constitutional crisis that followed the 1964 election, it was Zik who by seeking the support of the military over his stand-off with Balewa, that first exposed the military to politics. With 33 Igbo military officers, 10 Yoruba and eight from the north, the Igbo thought they were invincible. Young Igbo military officer’s sympathetic to Zik’s cause later staged the military putsch of January 1966 that led to the killing of all northern military officers and northern political leaders while they spared their own military and political leaders.

Nwafor Orizu who served as acting president in the absence of Zik, according  to Richard Akinjide, one of the surviving ministers, refused to call on the most senior minister to form government as provided for in the constitution. Ironsi, commander in-chief who we were told foiled the coup, insisted he could not guarantee the safety of the ministers except power was ceded to him. Dr Nwabueze, one of Ironsi advisers was said to have drafted Decree 34 of 1966 turning the country from a federal state to a unitary state. But it turned out a pyhrric victory for the Igbo as their northern rivals fought back in July 1966 leading to pogroms and the civil war of 1967-70

The two rivals regrouped again in 1979 as NPN and NPP. But the alliance again collapsed just before the 1983 election over sharing of spoils of office.

In 1999, the two rivals again came together under a PDP umbrella. For 16 years they did what they knew how to do best - sharing the resources of the nation through privatization and monetization policy. Again, what brought them together was to throw them apart when Saraki became a whistle-blower in the theft of N1.7t by children of PDP stalwarts in the name of fuel subsidy despite importing not even a pint of fuel.

 In 2023, infidelity over PDP rotational policy ripped them apart. Atiku Abubakar appealed to the northern ‘born to rule’ ethnic sentiments while Obi successfully exploited the ethnic and religion sentiments of his Igbo people. The two ended up as sore losers.

The ongoing battle for Senate presidency of the 10th assembly is all that is needed to know there is no love lost between the South-South and their Igbo Southeast brothers.

With 64-year Igbo vicious war against Yoruba and her interest, with relationship between them and their Fulani suitors often defined in the main by mutual suspicion and with their South-South neighbours now savouring their freedom after years of Igbo domination, it is not difficult to see how uncertain Igbo aspiration for leadership of a multi-ethnic Nigeria where trust constitutes a building block is.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by diogo23: 8:06am On May 18, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:
He needs to do more. That unfortunate killing of US embassy officials is a testament that Anambra is not safe yet. Anambra is not safe and it is quite unfortunate.
One does not know who to believe again for Mondays sit at home in Anambra.
Soludo is barely a year in office yet it is like all his predecessors left Anambra in a mess.
It's unfortunate that people like you believe nonsense, US release press briefing that none of their citizens were killed but because you have heard anambra state you won't stop masturbating over it

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by CasNova: 8:06am On May 18, 2023
From what I have observed, Soludo is trying, but he needs to do much more.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by RecentHistory: 8:07am On May 18, 2023
Controlled by Ipobidients you mean..

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by 1972xy: 8:08am On May 18, 2023
Keep it up Star boy ! Just be counting 16 years time ...."Na your turn "
Dat lie lie man no go smell the thrown.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by RecentHistory: 8:09am On May 18, 2023
MXrep:

The attack was on Monday not Tuesday. Secondly, to h3ll with US official, nothing special about them, thirdly, attack by criminal doesn't mean the criminal control the area. Dud any criminal set up any form of government like we have in Kaduna and Niger states? Criminal attack SW even more

Keep braying like a donkey since foolishness is in your DNA.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by Sheggy13(m): 8:09am On May 18, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:

The ones that attacked US officials on Monday nko?
You know they always live in denial and never accept responsibility, which is what is making the killings fester over there. He will soon reply you saying it's Fulani that attacked the US officials.

The governor who is the chief security officer of the state with first hand information is talking about the state of criminality in the state, one random guy who's probably living peacefully in Lagos is talking otherwise.

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 8:10am On May 18, 2023
Ever8090:
what is the difference between criminality and criminals?....me no too go school no vex ...

Kpong ndisime ado yak..
Dem go jus dey cap careless

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by obembet(f): 8:10am On May 18, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:

The ones that attacked US officials on Monday nko?

That na Ikeja

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Re: Soludo: When I Took Office, 8 LGAs Were Controlled By Criminals by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 8:11am On May 18, 2023
MXrep:

The attack was on Monday not Tuesday. Secondly, to h3ll with US official, nothing special about them, thirdly, attack by criminal doesn't mean the criminal control the area. Dud any criminal set up any form of government like we have in Kaduna and Niger states? Criminal attack SW even more

You can imagine the webs people will spin to hide under denial and delusion..

The governor is the chief security officer of the state n his word is the first that is reckoned with...
Who knows you, who goes you

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