Governor Theodore Orji has advised Ndume Ibeku youths in Umuahia North Council Area of the state to shun criminality and to always give information to security agents.

Orji gave the advice when the youths in their hundreds stormed his private residence to thank him for rescuing their son and state chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Sunny Nwakodo, from the hands of kidnappers.

Orji, who was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters, Eric Nwadinobi, urged the youths to shun all forms of criminality, especially kidnapping, stating that it is not in the character of Ibeku people to engage in such a crime.

He said the Federal Government has stationed special security forces in the state to forestall kidnapping and other vices, adding that anyone caught would face the full wrath of the law.

He advised them not to allow strange elements to use their communities to perpetrate kidnapping, while urging them to watch and report non-indigenes who might be in the act to the police.

Orji then urged them to also become community police of their own and “get rid of miscreants,” ortherwise, “it will affect your generations to come”.

“Don’t waste a minute to fish out criminals in our midst to ensure we rid society of criminality. Any Ibeku son caught in the act, I will not save him,” he warned.

In their separate speeches, the President General of Ndume, Ibe Ogbonna, and the President, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Amb. Chidiebere Kanu, thanked Governor Orji for rescuing Nwakodo.

They said the community; especially the youths were worried until the transport chief was rescued.

They also expressed concern that the governor was yet to disclose his future political ambition to them.

However, they also urged him to proceed with plans to contest for the senatorial position of Abia Central Senatorial District in 2015.

They commended him for being number one initiator of youth empowerment programmes in the country.

2015 tinz
how many times he go declare his intention? Abi una wan make him come settle?

Onyema Ugochukwu

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