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Raymond Ozoji, Awka
Chief Titus Nnabuike Akpudo, the national president Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) has advocated for the proper equipping of local vigilance operatives to enable them to effectively protect lives and properties at the grassroots.
Akpudo, who made the advocacy during an exclusive interview with our correspondent at the ASATU complex Government House Awka, stated that there was need for the incoming administration of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo to beam his searchlights on community vigilantes to boost their morale as well as motivate them with the necessary incentives to improve on their operations.
The ASATU boss who also doubles as the Deputy state president of Ohaneze-Ndigbo in Anambra, explained the dire need to inject younger persons into community vigilance services and mobilise them adequately to make their work very attractive and to enable them to match hoodlums creating problems in the hinterlands even as he pointed out that the federal government could also assist states in fighting insecurity especially as it concerns equipping local vigilante operatives to successfully secure communities.
He further stated that Anambra citizens expect improvements on what is on ground. He said the citizenry expects improvements on security, roads, healthcare, urbanization, power supply, think-home philosophy and also improve on his relationship with the town unions in the state.
Akpudo equally believes that citizens expect improvements in giving Awka a facelift as the state capital; that they also expect improvements in youth employment and job creation. The citizenry, he adds, expects massive improvements in all spheres of human endeavours as it is a transition from one APGA government to another APGA government.
Akpudo also disclosed that it was a welcome development that Professor Soludo chose to visit Okpoko community in Ogbaru local government area immediately after his swearing-in ceremony. Such visit, according to him, would help to improve on the roads and other infrastructures in the area to bestow it the urban status it really deserves, stressing that in the long run it would help to decongest Onitsha and also create a veritable source of revenue for the state.
The ASATU president however admonished Ndi-Anambra to lend their support, cooperation and friendship to the incoming governor to enable him to govern the state to expectations of all and sundry, stressing that there is need for citizens to work in line with government policies and directives as well as provide credible information where necessary and not criticise government unjustly.
