The Governor of Anambra state Charles Soludo has condemned in totality the razing down of the headquarters of Nnewi South Local Government Area.
The secretariat was attacked and razed Thursday morning by unknown gunmen in the state.
After visiting the burnt secretariat, Soludo decry the incessant attacks of businesses and government facilities saying that the state will never bow to pressure from miscreants and gunmen.
He pointed out that the needless bloodletting and wanton destruction of government properties and businesses does not define the people of the state.
“Nothing can justify these acts of criminality. 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,” he said.
Soludo said resources that should have been deployed to providing more for struggling taxpayers, would now be channeled into reconstruction and rebuilding missing records.
“It is very impossible to make any meaningful progress this way. Quite frankly, ndị 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,” he said.
Soludo recalled the murder of his police guards – Inspector Murtala Saudi, Sgt. Mudassir Ahmed, Sgt. Samuel Ishaya – in 2021 at a meeting with youths in his village and pledge to take care of their families.
“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”, he said