Gov Soludo Reacts As Gunmen Attack Nnewi South LGA Secretariat

Barely two weeks after his swearing in as the executive Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo is begun to say no to vandalization and criminality in his state.

Just in the wee hours of Thursday, unknown gunmen made the secretariat at Ukpor, the headquarters of Nnewi South Local Government Area their target for destruction.

Soludo who visited the scene of the incident with his entourage, condemned the attack and stated that the state won’t make visible progress if such a thing becomes a norm, Naija News reports.

The state leader lamented bitterly on the attacks on businesses and government facilities, vowing that Anambra won’t bow to criminals under his watch.

While stating that the mindless bloodletting and destruction of infrastructure does not define who the people are, Governor Soludo said Ndi Anambra cannot be repressed by a few criminal elements.

He said: “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,” Soludo said.

According to him, it becomes more bitter that resources that should be useful to providing more for struggling taxpayers, would now be channeled into reconstruction and rebuilding missing records because of activities of some criminal elements.

“It is very impossible to make any meaningful progress this way. Quite frankly, ndị Anambra cannot be repressed by a few criminal elements,” the Governor said.

He added: “Our resolve to entrench law and order is total, no amount of wanton destruction will cower us.”

Soludo recalled the murder of his police guards – Inspector Murtala Saudi, Sgt. Mudassir Ahmed, Sgt. Samuel Ishaya – in 2021 at a meeting with youths in his village, Naija News reports.

“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”, he said.