Gunmen raze Nnewi South LG secretariat

Gunmen, on Thursday, razed the Secretariat of the Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The local government secretariat is located at the Ukpor area of Anambra State.

The incident was said to have thrown the residents of the area into panic.

Meanwhile, the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has visited the scene of the attack on Thursday.

Soludo, who was accompanied by the state Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, condemned the attack, saying it was impossible for the state to make any meaningful progress with the destruction of buildings.

He said: “As I looked at what is left of the rubbles, I asked myself, “in all this, who loses?”

”Structures built from the taxes paid by the genuinely hard-working men and women on the streets are ruined for reasons that are incomprehensible to sane minds.

“The resources that should have been deployed to providing more for struggling tax payers, would now be channeled into reconstructing these destroyed buildings and rebuilding missing records. It is very impossible to make any meaningful progress this way.

“Quite frankly, Anambra cannot be repressed by a few criminal elements. Our resolve to entrench law and order is total, no amount of wanton destruction will cower us.

“I remember with a deep sense of grief, the three gallant police officers – Inspector Murtala Saudi, Sgt. Mudassir Ahmed, and Sgt. Samuel Ishaya, who lost their lives to the unknown gunmen who attacked us at a meeting with the youths in my village on this day last year.

“We pledge to continue to take care of their families, and for their sake and many others who lost their lives to the sheer wickedness of a few misguided people, we shall not relent in our effort to make Anambra liveable and prosperous,” the governor stated.

The Star