RAYMOND OZOJI reports
The Executive Chairman of Awka-South Local Government Area of Anambra State Hon. Prince Chinedu Okafor has in very strong terms debunked and denied allegations of using one Prince Collins Ozojiofor a.k.a Snoop to molest and terrorise tricycle operators operating in the council area.
Okafor who spoke to HEADLINE NEWS exclusively, maintained that such circumstance never existed in Awka-South under his watch and that the utmost priority of his government is the welfare and well-being of the citizens including Keke drivers who do their transportation businesses without molestations or harassments from anyone, according to him.
Although Keke drivers had alleged that the Awka-South Local Government Chairman in conspiracy with Snoop and backing of the newly conscripted Agunechemba Special Force imposed the acquisition of a certain security identification number from the local government authority which they resisted vehemently on the grounds that the state government had already done its security profiling on tricycle operators in the state and gave them security identification numbers, as reported in the news recently.
Reports also had it that tension heightened last Thursday at Eke-Awka following the arrest of one of the coordinators of Keke drivers Mr. Amos Nweke for not having the Awka-South Local Government Security Identification Number on his tricycle. This according to one Uchenna Umeh, another coordinator of Keke drivers in Awka-South Local Government Area, was the climax of ill-treatments unleashed on them by the council authority.
HEADLINE NEWS gathered that the Keke drivers in one accord took a firm decision that come rain come shine, they will never succumb or subject themselves to any form of illegality from the Awka-South Local Government Authority and that Prince Collins Ozojiofor alias Snoop was no longer the Chairman of Keke operators and they will not take orders from him because they don't know him even if he has the backing of security personnel.
But restating his position on the matter, the Awka-South Mayor Prince Chinedu Okafor maintained that he didn't authorize any person to enforce or impose security identification numbers on tricycle operators in the council area.
Okafor therefore expressed deep concern that the online media have become waste-bin for baseless, unverified reports because he was sure that no such enforcement was carried out in his domain.
He said, " Am not aware of any such reports. Nobody brought it to my table and there is no molestation anywhere. No Keke operator was molested by anybody."
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