The intense crack-down of crimi-nals in Anambra State entered a new
phase at the weekend when Gov-ernor Willie Obiano announced his
readi-ness to deploy drones and a handful of other hi-tech
surveillance equipment to smoke out criminals in the state from their
hiding places for immediate arrest and prosecution.
The governor, who spoke at the final test-running of the drones at the
Governor's Lodge, Amawbia before their deployment to trouble spots
across the state, also declared the resolve of his administration to
sustain the campaign against kidnappers, armed robbers and other
organised crimes in the state until they were either driven out or
clamped in jail.
According to him, his decision to use hi-tech devices to track down
criminals in the state marked the commence-ment of the second phase of
the ongoing campaign, which relied on sophisticated intel-ligence
gathering and clinical isolation of the flash points of crime to
ensure a comprehensive cleansing of the state of all criminals.
The governor, who felt greatly buoyed by the overwhelming sup-port he
received from the natives of the state resident in Abuja and the
surrounding areas, who collectively pooled about N100 million to
support his crime-fight-ing campaign, vowed to sustain the pressure on
criminal elements in the state until they had been reduced to
proportions that could be policed.
He maintained that with the financial dona-tions and goodwill he had
received from Ndi Anambra, he would re-invigorate Operation Kpochapu
with a new technological edge that would boost its capac-ity to detect
and prevent crime in the state.
"We are moving into the next phase of our campaign against criminals
in Anambra State. Our efforts shall be more intensely fo-cused on
crime detec-tion and prevention. That is the reason we are deploying
hi-tech surveillance equipment to spy on the activities of crime
suspects and forestall possibilities of violent crime," Obiano
explained, pointing out that the new phase re-quired a lot of
creativity.
"Modern crime-fighting requires a lot of creativity. Criminals are
extremely inven-tive and we have to be a step ahead of them to
outsmart them. We are relying heavily on tech-nology to give us their
coordinates and the gen-eral direction of their plans," he explained,
recalling that the recent rescue of a kidnap vic-tim, who was tracked
all the way to Orlu in Imo State, was a clear demonstration of the
ef-ficacy of technology in crime fighting.
Said he: "As soon as we got wind of the kid-nap, we moved in and
activated the devices. We monitored their movement to their hide-out
in Orlu, Imo State and waited until all the suspects were fully in
before we picked them up."
Since he came into of-fice in March this year, Governor Obiano had
singled out the challenge of insecurity as a major focus of his
administra-tion and evolved a num-ber of highly effective strategies
that had put criminals on the run in Anambra State.
One of the most vis-ible aspects of his strat-egy was the Attention of
security tents that were stuffed with sandbags in all existing and
potential dark spots in the state, manned by combat-ready armed
security operatives.
In addition to serving as a deterrent, the pres-ence of the trained
and pointedly unobtrusive security personnel in strategic areas made
it easy for a swift co-ordi-nation of counter-strikes that took
brigands un-awares.
The swift and coordi-nated reaction that led to the arrest of
Okechuk-wu Nnaegbo, a kidnap kingpin, at the Murtala Mohammed
Interna-tional Airport in a South African-bound aircraft remains one
of the high points of Obiano's cam-paign to cleanse the state of
criminal elements and restore confidence in the people.
-Sun news
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