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Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo
The Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, has again, knocked the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over increasing insecurity in the state.
The Catholic priest, fondly called “Fr. Ebube Muonso”, had, during a prayer march on Thursday, regretted that calls on the governor, who is the chief security officer of the state, to do everything in his power to stem the tide of insecurity, yielded no positive result.
He said, “If you are in Anambra State presently, you don’t need to be told that you need to be alert in the spirit.
“There is no security in Anambra State, and your governor doesn’t want to know. He is not interested. He is only interested in preparation for his second tenure. Most often, I do ask myself whether some of our politicians have a conscience at all.
“You are a governor of a state; people are dying everyday, and you are celebrating marriage anniversary. People are kidnapped everyday, and the governor insists that there is adequate security in the state. There is security and he is moving with fleet of security vehicles and dozens of security personnel.
“Have you seen the convoy of the Anambra State governor – with dozens of policemen, soldiers, DSS, armoured vehicles, and other things? He is well protected, but what of the poor masses, who do not have anything to protect themselves?”
Muonso further claimed that kidnappers from other states are currently hibernating in Anambra because they see the state as a haven for the operation.
He added, “To my greatest chagrin, Anambra has very small landmass – not even that the landmass is big. Anambra forests are so small that security guards can cover them in one day, yet they are not doing anything to combat kidnapping and other criminalities.
“The people should ask Governor Soludo what he does with his monthly security votes running into billions of naira.
“Let the governor act fast to save lives of people in the state because, he is not doing anything. Patching roads is not good governance. Anambrarians should rise to recover their state. People are being killed everyday.
“Two days ago, along Alor-Nnobi road, a young girl was killed and dropped by the roadside! Imagine a state where a kidnap victim stays in kidnappers’ den for 30 days; yet, you have a governor eating 3 square meals, and going to the gym on daily basis to keep fit.
“Members of the state assembly are not telling him anything! Has it not affected them? One of them has been with the kidnappers since 24th December, 2024. What decisive action are they taking?”
Meanwhile, Soludo has said that a conspiracy of silence among residents of the state is responsible for rising insecurity such as kidnapping for ransom and ritual killings in Anambra.
Speaking in Awka, on the occasion of the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, Soludo, who insisted that government and security agencies cannot fight crime alone, said that “criminals terrorizing Anambra live among residents as husbands, fathers, brothers, and friends; yet, people refuse to give information about their activities.”
