Insecurity in Sapele :APC Bigwig Bombs Police

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A leading APC chieftain and former. Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly Chief Monday Igbuya has blamed the spate of kidnapping and insecurity in Sapele on the police.

Igbuya regretted that instead of the police to fight banditry, they were more interested in extorting internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys).

Igbuya, who is Delta State Representative, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) made this allegations in chat with some reporters.

He also stated that some indigenes of Sapele were colluding with criminals to make Sapele very unsafe.

He lamented insecurity enveloping Sapele :“the worsening cases of insecurity in Sapele and its environs is becoming very worrisome and it is getting out of hand and if urgent steps are not taken to arrest the development, it will affect the social economic development of the town.

“So, I am calling on the Nigerian Police and other sister security agencies to up their games and stop this dangerous drift, because no one or nowhere is safe as it is today in Sapele, people are being kidnapped at will in their homes, along the streets and even public places unchallenged.

“You can imagine, a young man who came for the preparation of his father-in-law’s burial was kidnapped in front of the inlaw’s house in the Ghana-Ogberekoko area, and in the past four days, nothing has been heard about his whereabouts.

“Yesterday I also heard that they almost kidnapped someone in front of Foodland in Okpe road in broad daylight, but he was lucky to have escaped, it’s now everyday thing in Sapele and its environs.

“The situation “is getting out of hand, the security agencies should rather focus their attention on more critical issues than chasing Yahoo boys in town, they should up their games and change the dynamics.

“In past one, or two years, the town has been relatively peaceful and there was a huge improvement in terms of security, but the situation is becoming very alarming now. You know I was a victim of kidnapping in 2009 and the experience is horrifying.

“No community can experience meaningful development without a peaceful environment. So, I also appealed to our youths to shun crime and take up lawful means of livelihood, crime doesn’t pay.

“I also called on residents of Sapele to be more vigilant, this is not about herdsmen, this is the case of our people being involved in the kidnapping scheme, so we have to be very careful now”, he stated.

Source: THE TOWNHALL NG/The Nation


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