Enugu state Commissioner of Police Kanayo Uzuegbu, has warned criminals in the state to go elsewhere and practice their trade.
He said this while parading over 53 hoodlums suspected to be members of secret cults fueling incidents of abduction in the state.
He used the occasion to assure those planning to return for Christmas that they have nothing to fear as his men are battle ready to rid the state of criminals
He further dispelled most of the alleged kidnapping incidents reported on social media as fake news sponsored by mischief makers, who he said “exaggerate and blow cases of night time abduction and carjacking, most of which were not recent occurrences, out of proportion” in order to create tension and fear in the minds of residents.
The Police Commissioner, however, stated that some of the pockets of security breaches at night were cases of abduction rather than kidnapping and the acts were perpetuated by secret cultists.
He said that the anti-cultism squad of the Command had been mobilized and placed on the alert to go after the cultists with ruthless measures to flush them out of the state.
While commending Governor Peter Mbah over his administration’s support for the Command, CP Uzuegbu said he had got the approval and full support of the Governor to “ruthlessly deal with and rid the state of unrepentant cultists and their criminal activities”, assuring that the directive would be executed to the letter.
Warning cultists to repent or face the consequences, the police chief enjoined citizens to keep reporting criminal activities to the nearest police station.
Some of the dangerous items recovered from the hoodlums included 28 firearms, 30 live ammunition, 66 live cartridges, 25 motor vehicles, 16 motorcycles, mobile phones, cash in naira, military uniforms among other weapons.
