"Cross River Is Very Safe For All" Says Ayade
By Emmanuel Ulayi
Cross Riverians/Nigerians and foreigners have been reassured that Cross River state remains the safest place to live and carry out legitimate businesses.
The State Security Adviser (SSA) to Governor Ayade, Mr. Jude Ngaji, and Commissioner of Police, Cross River, Mr. Jimoh O.Ozi-Obeh, gave this assurance during the second edition of a radio programme, tagged “Ayade’s Cross River” on a topic, “Security in Cross River state” on Thursday, anchored by Beatrice Akpala, Emmanuel Ulayi and Solomon Asha.
They gave firm assurance to residents of the state and Calabar in particular that the state government under the leadership of Senator Ben Ayade and the security agents are fully committed to providing effective security to protect lives and property Cross Riverians and other Nigerians and foreigners residing and carrying out legitimate businesses in the state.
Answering questions from the trio of Akpala, Ulayi and Asha as well as members of the public, the duo of SSA and CP of Cross River debunked the rumours peddled by some persons that Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of state were under siege by militants.
Giving explanation to a question, the SSA, Mr. Ngaji, on his part said that it was based on the desire of the Ayade led administration to checkmate and bring to their kneels criminals and their nefarious activities that with the support and collaboration of the security agents, the recent “operation show of force” follow up with heavy deployment security agents in the streets of Calabar, just as the government has increased security allocation.
Ngaji further explained that so far, all the criminal elements now in the dragnet of the security agents, none were Cross Riverians indicating that the people of Cross River are peace loving people who are passionately averse to crime and criminal activities going by their nature and orientation, stressing the need for the people to always stake interests on who is their neighbours, their work/activities and report same to the police and his office, and maintained that his number is has been made known to members of the public.
Aligning with the position of the State Security Adviser, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ozi-Obeh, stressed that “we should all go back to the days when we were all conscious of our environment, conscious of our brothers and sisters and be interested on what they do”, regretting however that today most parents are no longer interested on what their children do to an extent that not only the youths today are involved in crime and criminal activities but also some adults/parents.
“We should all go back to homes, we all need to bring up pour children properly and stop saying it’s not our business because at the end of the day, it’s going to be everybody’s business. Open your mouth, give information to the security agents as these criminals are not spirits, they live among us, they don’t go to everybody, they go to those who accept them, as they know that if there are reasonable persons in a particular neigbourhood who will expose them, they will never go near there”, Ozi-Obeh maintained.
The Cross River CP further called on parents to carry on their divine obligation of bringing up their children in the right path by finding little time to stay with them and know what they are doing, stating that there was need for us to help our young ones imbibe those old time cherished values that are gradually being eroded in our society.
Speaking on the issue of kidnapping, Mr. Ozi-Obeh disclosed that kidnapping cases were not so pronounced as in some other parts of the country, and that from the records available to the police, the situation in Cross River is not what the people should be panicking, and called on the people of the state to go about their lawful businesses without fear of molestation as the security agents are on ground and equal to the task to deal with crimes in the state.
On his part, the SSA, Mr. Ngaji further said that the government is doing its best security-wise adding that”…we are doing well but that is up to the public to call and tell us, the essence of this programme is to help us, because we are not magicians. Call and inform us on what is going on in your environment…What we did on Saturday was to tell the bad guys that we are ready, and make no mistake, shortly after the show of force, we deployed immediately security agents to all parts of Calabar and we have sustained that until we clean up the town”.
Ngaji equally appealed, “let us not play politics with crime”, adding that government was doing everything to take crime and criminal activities out of the streets of Calabar and the state as a whole, and called on the people to continue to support Ayade while ensuring that they provide useful information to the government and the law enforcement agents to go after the bad guys.
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