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Warri North Council Boss to Swing Into Action Over activities of Criminals

Warri North Council Boss to Swing Into Action Over activities of Criminals
 


The Chairman of Warri North Local Government Council,Hon.Captain Smart Yomi Asekutu,has threatened to weiled the big stick against enemies of peace operating anywhere in Warri North Local Government Council
         
Hon. Asekutu handed down this warning at an emergency security meeting he convened in his office in Koko, headquarters of the local government council Friday.
           
Hon.Capt.Asekutu stated that he convened the meeting to enable the government,security agencies on ground as well as critical stakeholders in the peace keeping efforts to deliberate and quickly spring into action to arrest this ugly trend of kidnapping and other acts of criminality going on in the council area.

He said in tacking this menace,he would not hesitate to ask the security agents whom he said were ever ready to swing into action,to go all out after these bad guys, who wish to disturb the flow of investments into the local government warning that,if anyone was caught in the act, he would never come in to save such person regardless of their ethnic afiliation stressing that he is neither an Ijaw Chairman nor Itsekiri Chairman, rather, he is Warri North Local Government Chairman.
           
He further added that he would not sit back and watch investors go elsewhere because of activities of few criminals and  therefore enjoined the EX-AGITATORS who were a critical element in the  quest to arrest the trend,to collaborate with government by volunteering information which could help change the present dynamic.While promising greater support to volunteers of useful intelligence
 Hon.Asekutu revealed that the State government was already working on a plan to deploy Vigilante group across communities to help beef up security 
             
He thanked the security agents which included the ARMY ,the DSS,EX-AGITATORS and other attendees of the meeting for honouring his invitation even at such short notice In their separate reaction at the meeting,the Military and the DSS both gave stern warnings to criminal elements operating in the local government and advised such undesirable elements to quickly change their ways or be ready to face hard time from law enforcement agent as they were sent to the area to maintain order and that they must do without  pity on anyone caught in the act. The EX-AGITATORS jointly agreed to join in the effort
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