Nigeria: Gov Eno Goes Powerful As Kidnappers, Cultists Threaten Tourism, Traders

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Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno, has learn the riot act to safety businesses over safety breaches by kidnappers, cultists and different hoodlums.

LEADERSHIP investigation confirmed that the actions of the criminals have scared vacationers, guests and traders from the state.

Nervous by the menace, the governor, it was learnt, has issued Govt Order (EO) to demolish homes of recognized kidnappers, with plans to lift the just lately inaugurated 550 – capability native vigilantes referred to as Ibom Group Watch (ICW), to supply safety intelligence throughout the 31 native authorities areas.

That is so as a result of within the final couple of weeks, the state christened ,The Land of Promise’ has been raped and ripped open by daring criminals plodding the streets of Uyo and different LGAs with reckless abandon, particularly Mkpat Enin, which has of late, grew to become the epicentre of cults assaults.

Just lately, cultists on prowl within the streets of Uyo, the state capital, wielding machetes, charms, locally-fabricated weapons, and different small arms and light-weight weapons, moved in teams from Eka Avenue to others, inflicting machete cuts on their perceived enemies and different mushy targets.

No fewer than 30 individuals who reportedly sustained various levels of accidents have been hospitalised, in response to a lady, whose store was attacked and looted alongside Eka Avenue, Uyo.

About two months in the past, a last yr Laptop Science scholar, recognized as Daniel Okon, from Oron native authorities space, was fatally shot and killed at Idak Okpo Lane, Uyo, when armed hoodlums, in response to Chief Effiong Akpan, a group chief within the space, invaded the group.

A number of telephones, laptops, money and different private belongings owned by college students and the native residents, have been carted away by the hoodlums.

Additionally, within the Uyo metropolis, a younger woman was savagely killed with very important physique components taken away by suspected cultists, who later dumped the remaining physique components on the gate of The Boys College, Anua, in Uyo LGA.

At Udo Udoma Banking Format, one other girl was additionally killed and beheaded together with her headless stays dumped in farmland near the AKIRS workplace of the huge advanced.

Regrettably, in response to one Nse Abasi Ekanem, one of many vigilante officers on the structure, ” neither the standard police, nor the native vigilantes just lately inaugurated to take care of safety throughout the 31 LGAs, may display sturdy will to sort out the scourge on the capital.”

He mentioned: “To enrich the common safety businesses within the state, Governor Umo Eno, had by the Commissioner for Inner Safety and Waterways, Koko Essien, a retired Military Common, launched a personal safety outfit with 550 skilled youths, however regrettably, there isn’t a signal that there is any holistic motion plan to curb the menace.”

As nervousness spreads with the heightened actions of the hoodlums, it took the intervention of troops from the Nigerian Military (NA) at Ibagwa, in Abak native authorities space to maneuver into the troubled space of Mkpat Enin LGA, to raze the properties of two suspected cult leaders who specialize in kidnapping unsuspecting members of the general public for ransom.

“It was found that these criminals had kidnapped a businessman, a principal supplier in beer and different drinks at Ekparakwa junction within the neighbouring Oruk Anam LGA.

“Within the technique of negotiation, the businessman grew to become unconscious due to heavy torture and was launched, however out of the blue he died of significant bodily wounds and inside bleeding, thereby forcing the navy intervention,” an area resident who most popular anonymity defined.