Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo at the damaged Nnewi South Council office
Hoodlums torch Nnewi South council HQ, as Soludo visits complex, condemns attack
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Hoodlums, Wednesday night, attacked the Nnewi South local government area headquarters and set ablaze a building at the Secretariat.
State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo who visited the LGA on on-the-spot assessment on Thursday condemned the attack.
Soludo noted that nothing could justify such acts of criminality.
According to him, this mindless bloodletting and destruction of infrastructure does not define who we are.
Soludo said: “I was at Ukpor, the Nnewi South LGA Headquarters and the scene of last night’s attack by some arsonists.
This mindless bloodletting and destruction of infrastructure does not define who we are! Nothing can justify these acts of criminality.
“As I looked at what is left of the rubbles, I asked myself, “in all this, who loses?”. Structures built from the taxes paid by the genuinely hard-working men and women on the streets are ruined for reasons that are incomprehensible to sane minds. The resources that should have been deployed to providing more for struggling tax payers, would now be channeled into reconstructing these destroyed buildings and rebuilding missing records. It is very impossible to make any meaningful progress this way.
“Quite frankly, ndị Anambra cannot be repressed by a few criminal elements. Our resolve to entrench law and order is total, no amount of wanton destruction will c0wer us.
“I remember with a deep sense of grief, the three gallant police officers – Inspector Murtala Saudi, Sgt. Mudassir Ahmed, and Sgt. Samuel Ishaya, who lost their lives to the Unknown Gunmen who attacked us at a meeting with the youths in my village on this day last year. We pledge to continue to take care of their families, and for their sake and many others who lost their lives to the sheer wickedness of a few misguided people, we shall not relent in our effort to make Anambra Liveable and Prosperous.”
