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AWKA – The Anambra Police Command has said that communities shielding criminals elements attacking, killing and maiming innocent people in the state is contributory to the escalation of recent insurgency in the state.
The State Commissioner, Echeng E. Echeng levied the allegation on Monday in Awka while briefing journalists on the gruesome murder of Anambra state lawmaker Hon. Okechukwu Okoye and his aide, Cyril Chiegboka at the police headquarters, Awka on Monday.
Echeng said that the problem in the state is the conspiracy among the communities, where nobody wants to say anything.
According to him, “people know those killing and kidnapping people in the communities but are not ready to talk.
“Instead they mystify them with tag of unknown gunmen, when they are known by the various communities.
“Some of us have come out to tag these people unknown gunmen. We are trying to mystify something that is not just there .It is time we go into demystifying the tag of unknown gunmen.
“They are not spirits, they are our brothers, they live with us in our communities. That is the obvious truth. We know who are these people.
“The problem the state security have is total conspiracy of silence, when nobody sees something, nobody says something and nobody hears something. Security is collective, everybody has a battle”.
