The Anambra Tragedy! By Daniel Elombah
'The Abia Tragedy' written by Chidi Amuta, (Thisday, 01 July 2010) encapsulates the sate of hopelessness that afflicts the entire South-East Region and not just Abia State.
Everything Chidi wrote about Abia equally holds true for Anambra State. In fact, 'in the growing catalogue of Nigerian states that are in romance with bankruptcy and total meltdown', Anambra is in on all fours with Abia, if not worse!
Unarguably, Anambra is one of the most dangerous and depressing place in today's Nigeria. Despite the anxiety regularly expressed by the public over the worsening state of insecurity, it is disheartening that the Anambra State Government has failed to take drastic measures to stem the wave of violent crime in the state.
Yet, like his colleagues in other states in the southeast, Governor Peter Obi is not bothered. He has converted Anambra state into his private estates, with the governor more like an emperor or a Czar looting the treasuries of the state, buying up everyone- journalists, political leaders, Paris priests into a conspiracy of silence and generally conducting his government on the internet and on the pages of newspapers.
In Anambra state, Peter Obi has refused to hold Local Government elections out of a pervading desire to sit on their federal allocation and the future of the people.
Recently, a gang of daredevil armed robbers went on the rampage in Anambra State, killing 30 people, including three pregnant women, three police officers and a soldier, in an operation that reportedly lasted for about two hours. About 15 people were reportedly injured.
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