Governor Charles Soludo has stated that Anambra State is the safest in the country, with no incident in the last four months.
The governor also disclosed that eight local governments that were under siege from criminal elements had returned to normalcy and that the state had cleansed over 60 criminal camps.
Soludo stated that the state had witnessed a large influx of people for the holiday season during a live media talk on Friday at the state capital in Awka.
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”It is safe today to say, Anambra, we claim to be the safest from all statistics, that within three to four months, we haven’t had any major incident of any sort.
”We had the best Christmas ever in decades this last Christmas with over 10,000 people visiting the city on a daily basis and so on and so forth,” he said.
The governor added that the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) sit-at-home directive, which had long hampered activity in the South-East, was no longer in effect in Anambra.
He said that public services, companies, markets, and schools had all returned to their regular activities.
”The sit-at-home is over, our schools and markets, factories and public services are back to work. The flights are back to Anambra on Mondays,” he said.
Soludo described the circumstances he inherited in 2022, pointing out that locals were not allowed to drive branded cars or publicly exhibit political party colours without endangering their lives.
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He claimed that there was a great deal of danger during the 2021 governorship campaign.
”In 2021, it was impossible for anybody to wear a political party’s paraphernalia or drive a vehicle around Anambra that was branded; you would be killed.’
“Some people were killed,” he said.
Despite the upbeat tone, Soludo, who was recently sworn in for a second term in office as governor, noted that it was nearly impossible to have a perfect security architecture.
“There is no place with over 100 per cent security,” he said. “It’s not a destination but a work in progress,” the governor added.
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