By Kamsi Anayo
The Anambra State Police Command has intensified efforts with various community leaderships and non indigenes against the worsening insecurity in the state.
Commissioner for Police, Echeng Eworo Echeng to our Correspondent in Awka, Anambra State capital on Wednesday that it is making progress in the ongoing collaborations with the traditional rulers, president-generals and other stakeholders in various community in the state.
He said that he had also met with the non indigenes, particularly the Fulani community to assure them of protection in the state.
Echeng called on the public to provide the security operatives in the state with timely and useful information on the hoodlum’s hideouts in and around their domains to achieve further success against criminality.
He said that some information so far by indigenes have helped the command to bust many criminal syndicates in the last one weeks, and also taken out many criminal elements.
He said he had complained about the reluctance of most communities to come out with information on criminals, who have been code named unknown gunmen.
“I complained that there seemed to be a conspiracy of silence among most indigenes, but I can tell you that after those reports, many indigenes have now started volunteering information to us.
“Within one week, we have gotten information that we never knew existed. We have also heard a lot of stories from people, and we have used those information to bust many criminal syndicates.
“It is painful the way human lives are being wasted in recent time by the hoodlums in the state, and I assure you that the police is alive to its responsibility if you give us adequate information to stop this criminal surge,” the commissioner said.
Echeng thanked the media for the role it is playing, saying that a lot of criminal suspects have been arrested, including native doctors who fortify the criminals.
He promised that soon, more stories of the arrest of criminals will be made available to the media as suspects were still being interrogated.