Activist Urges Action On menace Of Hoodlums

An Onitsha-based activist, Comrade Uzor Uzor, has urged Anambra government to muster the political will to deal decisively with the age-long nefarious activities of hoodlums at the Upper Iweka area of Onitsha in Anambra.

“Many unsuspecting travellers, visitors and some residents have fallen prey to these hoodlums and it is giving the state and the entire south-east a very bad image,’’ Uzor told newsmen last  Friday in Onitsha.

He said that the hoodlums attack and dispossess unsuspecting people of their belongings even in broad day light.

He noted that they harassed their victims with pistols and other dangerous weapons, while some specialised in taking away wrist-watches and jewelry from occupants of vehicles.

The activist also called on the state government to start its beautification project at the Upper Iweka area and make sure that there would be constant power supply and police teams in the area in the night.

Uzor, who is chairman of Campaign for Democracy, Anambra Chapter, urged the police and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to raid all areas in the commercial city where hoodlums abound.

“Let me recall back some time ago when I was attacked while my two handsets were disposed from me under gunpoint.

“I sent a memo to the governor of Anambra State, copied to SSS and other security agencies, alerting them of the dangers caused by thugs and other criminals within the Upper Iweka axis.

“But as I am talking to you now, nothing has happened, nothing positive has happened.

“So people are being attacked there daily.

“Sometime in  broad daylight, some criminals will come while drivers would be on motion, they will come there and snatch their wrist watches and gold and other materials they have within the car.

“So enough is not being done to arrest this situation.’’