Hope Uzodimma, Imo governor, says about 50 suspects have
been arrested in connection with the recent attacks in the state.
Recently, there have been attacks on security agencies and
other government facilities in the state.
Earlier in the month, some gunmen attacked the federal
prison and police command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital, and set
ablaze vehicles packed in the vicinity. Some inmates in the prison were also
set free.
Speaking with journalists on Friday after a meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, Uzodimma asked the
nation’s intelligence agencies to publish names of politicians allegedly
sponsoring banditry across the country.
He alleged that the criminal activities happening across the
country were being sponsored by opposition elements with the intent to
discredit the incumbent administration.
“It’s not only CCTV; some of those arrested by security
agencies, some of them are not from Imo state or the south-east. It was a
combination of those within the state and those from outside the state. As of
the last count, we arrested almost 40 to 50 people, who also made useful
statements and confessed to the crime,” Uzodimma said.
“From 2015 till today, I thought what the problem would be
is people saying that there’s no job creation, people are not feeding, salaries
are not paid, infrastructure are going down, social interventions are not
approved by government. These things are there, available — a passmark for the
government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Now, people are no
longer talking about that. Rather, what they are doing is to sponsor crisis, to
the extent that those funding this banditry are politicians, which I challenge
and call on security agencies to make their names available to the press,
because what they want to do is to distract a government that is focused.
“If this government is not doing well, I’ll be one of those
that will declare the government as not doing well. But a situation where
you’ll leave the formal way, ethical way of doing politics, and you are now sponsoring
banditry to bring down a government, for Christ’s sake, we should rise up and
condemn it, all of us.”
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