Agunechemba’: Sarkin Hausawa Amawbia Preaches Peace, Order In Anambra
ONITSHA – The leader of Hausa community in Amawbia (Sarkin Hausawa Amawbia), Alhaji Mahmud Sani-Garba, has hailed Governor Charles Soludo for the new security initiative to protect life and property of the citizenry and expressed the hope that it would usher in peace and public order. While urging the new recruits to work within the confines of the law establishing the outfit, he called on the operatives not to take law into their hands.
Sani-Garba called on the state government to include the Hausa community in the decision-making organ of the new security initiative in order to exercise effective and better monitoring, control and influence over their members’ movement. He promised that non-indigenes, particularly the Hausa community members would cooperate with the government and ensure the success of the initiative by being law-abiding.
According to him, the Agu n’eche mba” security outfit, will assist the police and other sister security agencies to prevent crimes and combat security challenges, thereby providing an enabling environment for the state government to concentrate and increase the pace of work on infrastructure and other developmental strides.
The Hausa community leader said the new policing outfit is a new year package which Soludo is giving to the indigenes and residents in the state and prayed for peace and harmony among them . Sani-Garba appealed to both the federal and state governments to show more concern to the fallen heroes who laid down their lives for the survival of the country and its members, stressing that adequate compensation be laid to the family members they left behind.
It would be recalled that last week, Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo inaugurated a new community policing outfit called “Agu na eche mba,” (Lion that protects community) in Awka, the State capital.
The launch was part of measures put in place by the state government to check the killings, kidnappings, Yahooplus and other crimes in the state.
Prior to the inauguration, Soludo had mooted the idea of the flag off of “Operation Udo ga achi” (Operation Let Peace Reign) as a response to take back the state.
At its plenary last Thursday, the Hon. Somtochukwu Udeze-led legislature received and considered an executive bill entitled “Anambra State Homeland Security Bill” which was passed into law and made effectively operational January 17 2025.
The bill to establish “Agu n’eche mba” and provide for the maintenance of internal security and order in the state repealed the 2015 Anambra State Vigilante Law.
In a joint press conference with the Chairmen and members of the House Committee on Media and Publicity and the Committee on Information, the Chairman of the Committee on Media, Hon. Ejike Okechukwu, said the law empowered the presidents-general of communities to make regular security reports.
The other aspects of the law included the requirement of valid means of identification from lodgers in hotels across the state, landlords to have details of intending tenants, and of action against unexplainable wealth, okite, and “ezenwanyi” (priesthood) practices relating to money rituals, thereby propagating the narrative of quick money.