By Maxim Uzoatu
An armed robber was recently caught in his native Ebonyi State robbing a motorcyclist with a shotgun.
In his confessional statement, the nabbed robber revealed that he had been plying his evil trade in Anambra State but ever since Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, launched Operation Udo-Ga-Achi and put Agunechemba to work Anambra became too hot to operate in!
The pathetic robber had to return to his home state where law enforcement agents captured him and put him up on the social media for the world to see.
Indeed, Anambra is truly too hot for all criminals today.
For Governor Soludo, dealing with the clear and present danger of insecurity in Anambra State had been on the front burner from the very beginning.
Before Prof Soludo came into office, criminals had all but taken almost complete control of eight local governments in Anambra State, namely: Aguata, Ihiala, Ekwusigo, Nnewi North, Nnewi South, Ogbaru, Orumba North and Orumba South.
These daredevil criminals had built idolatrous camps from where they operated.
The satanic camps had the full complement of shrines where people were sworn to a conspiracy of silence.
The situation was dire and demanded an uncommon solution.
For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Governor Soludo created the Ministry of Homeland Security, and also appointed a Special Adviser on Security.
He then engaged the traditional authorities, market leaders, prelates and priests to buy into his drive to cleanse Anambra State of the monster of insecurity.
Members of the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) were charged to take the battle directly to the rampaging criminals.
The various camps of the hoodlums were routinely invaded, and it was such a revelation seeing their idols, the registers they kept to record ransom payment, decaying human corpses etc.
The war on insecurity exposed the fact that the so-called “Unknown Gunmen” were not spirits but people known in their communities and neighbourhoods.
The ruse about Fulani herdsmen being solely behind the criminalities coming from the bush was trashed when full-blooded Igbo men and women got captured at will.
In a creative approach to deal with the almost intractable problem, Governor Soludo created special telephone numbers for Ndi-Anambra to call the authorities to divulge information on the criminals.
Mr. Governor pointedly stated: “If you see something, say something!”
It was only fear that was making the people not to reveal the identities of the killers and marauders to the authorities.
The resurgence of criminality, especially kidnapping, after Governor Soludo’s sustained efforts to stem it called for emergency measures.
Mr. Governor appointed the experienced Chief Ken Emeakai as Special Adviser on Community Security.
It’s against this dire background that the final solution on insecurity in Anambra State was put in top gear by Governor Soludo through the launch of Operation Udo-Ga-Achi and the no-nonsense Agunechemba fit-fighting front to give Anambra the topmost security necessary for a peaceful and prosperous homeland.
Anambra has since become too hot for the so-called Yahoo Boys who are actually kidnappers that believe in wealth without work.
The fake native doctors fortifying the hoodlums are now running for their lives, as well as the self-styled Ezenwanyis.
It’s all so hot for all ill-assorted criminals and their cohorts on the Anambra front.
The icing on the cake is that the onslaught on insecurity is being done with all the democratic processes in place.
As I write now, the Anambra State Homeland Security (Amendment) Bill 2025 has been duly reviewed by the Anambra State House of Assembly and has thusly been passed into law to enhance the security framework and safeguard the citizens and residents of the state.
It’s an all-encompassing war, and nobody can afford to sit on his oars.
Governor Soludo is always interfacing with the Presidents-General of Town Unions of Anambra communities, and I recently heard the PG of Ogbunka town in Orumba South LGA lamenting how the criminalities in his domain were laid bare to him by Mr. Governor such that he was barely saved from being disgraced out of power!
There can be no disagreeing that Governor Soludo is cast in the mold of the 32nd President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who charged his people during the Great Depression with these marching words: “The only thing to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
The people must put their destiny into their own hands by trusting Governor Soludo’s unrelenting efforts in tackling the issue of insecurity in Anambra State instead of because of fear bending the knee to outlaws acting as the menace in the state.
It would be demonic to use the issue of security to play partisan politics instead of joining forces with the government to rout the criminals in our midst.
In Anambra State, peace must rule now that Mr. Governor has sounded the bugle call of Udo-Ga-Achi via Agunechemba!
Anambra State is deservedly too hot for all criminals, dubious dibias, fishy ezenwanyis – and their accomplices!
