Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has placed 1 million naira bounty on the armed hoodlums that attacked police station in Aba on Tuesday.
In a statement made available to IGBERE TV by the Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu said Ikpeazu administration is determined to pay N1m for any information leading to the recovery of any of stolen arms and or arrest of any suspect.
He further said that "no part of Abia land will be ceded to criminals operating under any guise and we will not spare any resource in ensuring that the perpetrators of this dastardly act are brought to book in no distant time and the stolen arms and ammunition recovered completely."
He also imposed a ban on Keke/Okada operations among 7pm and 7am in all main cities of the nation starting from today, twenty third February, 2021.
The announcement reads,
"The interest of Abia State Government has been drawn to a senseless and cowardly attack on a police station in Aba with the aid of but to be recognized armed hoodlums in the early hours of these days main to loss of valuable lives and carting away of hands and ammunition."
"We desire to assure participants of the general public that authorities is working with protection businesses in the country to fish out the perpetrators of this dastardly crime and produce them to justice as quick as possible."
"No a part of Abia land might be ceded to criminals running underneath any guise and we can not spare any resource in ensuring that the perpetrators of this dastardly act are brought to ebook in no distant time and the stolen fingers and ammunition recovered completely."
"Sadly, the arms these hoodlums have carted faraway from regulation enforcement marketers will maximum probable be used towards harmless citizens. Government consequently calls on citizens to avail law enforcement groups with essential records so as to result in the arrest of the criminals and restoration of those palms ."
"Such statistics will be handled with the utmost secrecy it deserves."
"Consequeny, Government hereby imposes a ban on Keke/Okada operations between 7pm and 7am in all principal cities of the state beginning from today, 23rd February, 2021."
"Once once more, we call for total vigilance and activate records from residents to make certain the arrest and prosecution of the hoodlums. We name on banks and other inclined establishments to give a boost to protection round their locations of commercial enterprise while strongly advising all safety formations inside the state to remain on pink alert till the situation is fully pacified."
"Law abiding citizens and traffic are counseled to go approximately their ordinary organizations while retaining vigilance as measures were put in location to make sure their safety."
"Those attacking security agents and formations best are seeking to engender anarchy and fear within the minds of our human beings however we are able to no longer permit them to win or flip our awareness far from the exhausting venture of swiftly developing our state. We will therefore keep to assist safety businesses with some thing they need to foil the schedule of the hoodlums."
"While we implore community leaders to be vigilant, we urge mother and father and guardians to take extra interest inside the activities of their children and wards to keep away from their falling prey to criminally minded individuals."
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