RAYMOND OZOJI reports
The Special Adviser to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo on Community Security Chief Ken Emeakayi has declared that no Agunechemba operative of the Operation Udo Ga Chi Security Service is above the law.
Emeakayi who made the declarative statement during an exclusive interview with HEADLINE NEWS in his office at the old Government House Awka, stated in very strong terms that there are no sacred cows and no sentimental or emotional attachments in their operations judging from the law establishing the security outfit.
Emeakayi who is overseeing the Agunechemba Operation Udo Ga Chi Security Service on behalf of the governor, said they arrest their operatives who contravened the law, stressing that there are no nepotism in their service delivery.
He said one of the Agunechemba operatives accosted a lady on an errand in Isuaniocha area of Awka-North Local Government and began to harass her for not wearing bra and in the end forcefully collected N70,000 from her.
He said they got the information and he sent for the officer who is now in hand-cuffs for the crime he committed because the victim identified him when the family members came to his office to complain about the incident involving their daughter and the Agunechemba security operative.
The governor's aide also recalled how the Onitsha-South Local Government Mayor deployed Agunechemba operatives on a revenue drive contrary to the rules and regulations of the security outfit. He noted that the said revenue collection resulted in fracas with Keke drivers in Onitsha. He said he got the information and dispatched men from Awka who went to Onitsha-South and arrested the operatives; disarmed them; confiscated their vehicles and equipment and brought to Awka.
According to him, the operational vehicle of the Agunechemba Operation Udo Ga Chi attached to Onitsha-South Local Government was confiscated for over one month and the operatives made to do an undertaking that they have made peace with Keke operators in the area.
Again, he recalled another ugly episode where it was alleged that Operation Udo Ga Chi people kidnapped someone and whisked him to an unknown destination. This he said was a blatant lie because he got to the root of the matter and discovered that there was no kidnap case involving Agunechemba operatives.
Emeakayi explained that his office investigated the alleged kidnap and found out that the supposed victim didn't tell bloggers the truth of what actually happened before they went viral on the social media propagating fictitious stories. According to him, the supposed kidnapped victim actually came to his office to report the matter.
He said not minding the concocted stories in the social media, they took up the matter and in the end, the supposed kidnapped victim was liable after thorough investigations. He said that the Agunechemba operatives who were involved in the crime were arrested. That the POS operator used in the money transfer was arrested while a Boutique operator was equally nabbed and all of them were subsequently handed over to the police.
He further disclosed that the supposed kidnapped victim stole from a boutique owner while the boutique owner saw him through his CCTV cameras stealing his goods and stuffing them in his bag and caught him red handed. He said rather than collect the exact amount of what the customer took from his boutique, he insisted that the guy will pay for all the goods that have been stolen from his shop. The governor's aide maintained that after paying about N90,000 for the goods they caught him with, the boutique owner also compelled the customer to cough out about N500,000 for goods that have been allegedly stolen from his shop.
The Udo Ga Chi Security Service boss maintained that as if that was not enough, the boutique owner invited Agunechemba operatives from Mgbakwu Awka-North who whisked the customer to Mgbakwu where they charged him N2 Million and brought a POS operator to receive the money. According to him, the boutique owner was arrested, the POS operator was arrested, the customer was arrested and the vigilante operative who billed the customer N2 Million was equally apprehended and all of them were handed over to the police.
He therefore reiterated that there is no sentiment whatsoever in the activities of Operation Udo Ga Chi Security Squad even he challenged members of the public to always bring genuine complaints or evidence of any wrong doing of any member of Udo Ga Chi Security Squad to his office and such erring officers will not go scot-free because the law must take its cause.
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