The newly launched safety outfit in Akwa Ibom State, Ibom Group Watch, ICW, stated it apprehended over 18 suspects in Uyo who allegedly burgled individuals’s outlets and stalls in the course of the yuletide.
The Commander of ICW, Isantim Kenneth Okon, disclosed this on the weekend whereas receiving the management of the Centre for Human Rights & Accountability Community (CHRAN) on behalf of the Commissioner, Ministry of Inside Safety and Waterways, Akwa Ibom State, Gen. Koko Essien (rtd) at his workplace in Uyo.
He famous that the suspects, having recognized that the majority store homeowners transfer to the Christmas village to promote their wares in the course of the yuletide, burgled the outlets.
Okon defined that by means of the efforts of the ICW, who mounted surveillance round some spots in Uyo, the suspects have been nabbed and instantly handed over to the police for investigations.
He additional defined that in 2023, in contrast to different years, the circumstances of rape and theft across the Christmas village have been extremely lowered as males of ICW took over the safety of the realm and ensured that a few of these crimes and criminality have been averted, noting that the company is working in synergy with different safety companies, particularly in intelligence sharing.
In accordance with him, “Throughout the yuletide, we used to have circumstances of rape, automobile theft and so forth, particularly on the Christmas village. We heard tales of how some boys would drag some women to the banking format to take them.
“In an effort to stem the tide, we advised our recruits to take over the safety of that place and it has labored tremendously, now we didn’t hear a lot tales on that. Additionally ICW apprehended over 18 suspects that went to interrupt peoples stall as a result of individuals moved to the Christmas village so that they began breaking their stalls, we apprehended them and handed them to the police for additional investigation however this isn’t a political affair, when arm robbers strike they don’t contemplate occasion affiliations so safety is everybody bussiness.”
Whereas noting that each one the recruits of ICW can be profiled, Okon urged individuals to disabuse their minds that the outfit has a political undertone and the recruits are cultists, saying that it’s purely a safety outfit and everybody needs to be concerned in safety issues.
Talking earlier, the Akwa Ibom State Director of CHRAN, Otuekong Franklyn Isong, recommended the governor and the Home of Meeting for enacting the regulation establishing the fee to handle the problems of inside safety within the state.
He charged the company to be diligent in its duties by guaranteeing that problems with vandalism, cultism, trafficking, particularly throughout the Ibom plaza, kidnapping and different types of safety threats are addressed, at the same time as he thanked Governor Umo Eno for offering 14 gunboats to the Navy to sort out maritime insecurity.
Isong additionally urged the governor to supply extra gunboats and different logistics, saying that the 14 gunboats already offered is not going to be sufficient to go across the waterways within the state.
The CHRAN Director additionally known as for steady coaching of the recruits and the institution of a human rights desk for complaints from the general public to be able to give the company a human rights face.
He additionally tasked them with shifting in the direction of the College campuses in addition to checking the actions of scavengers and cattle rearers whose cows have constantly destroyed the crops of farmers, at the same time as he urged Governor Eno to supply a cattle ranch for them to cease the problems of open grazing within the state.
Isong, nonetheless, famous that CHRAN would police the actions of the safety company, urging them to at all times be up and doing.
Yuletide: ICW apprehends 18 suspected burglars in Uyo