Security Summit: We Are In Primary Training Of Operation Udogachi…..CP Orutugu ……As PCRC Honors Him With Agunechemba Title

By Julie Sylvia, Onitsha

The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP, Ikioye Orutugo, on 25th July disclosed that the Anambra State Security Outfit, Operation Udogachi has being directed by the Inspector General of Police to be given professional training on security protocols, ethics and professionalism

“These people were picked from many places, and as a police man, I did not enter police like this, I was trained gradually, it may not come out once, we are in primary training for Operation udogachi, gradually after six months, they would enter secondary, from their to university level.

CP Orutugu who said this in a security Summit held at the Onitsha Area Command during the question and answer section, stated that it will get to a point when people would even be in love with udogachi more than the police.

According to him, “We will train them to a certain level that when they have a case, they finish the case there, if they want to hand over to the Police, they will hand over to the Police.

“Please do not be agitated,the law empowers them to arrest, the criminal code empowers everybody as a civilian, if you see someone committing an offence in your presence, you arrest that person and hands over immediately to the police.

“You don’t need to blame governments, it is a child of necessity, it was a child for two years, we were battling with serious insecurity and it emerged and is aimed to assist in curtailing the increased crime rate by the State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo

“With time, all these things we are facing are temporal challenges, temporary challenges because most of we parents have stopped correcting our children.
A child will leave home and come back by 11pm, you keeps quiet, some of us, if your neighbor corrects your child, you make your child hate that neighbour.

“Those parents and others who blame government, especially the police for the increased crime wave in the state before now that it has been reduced to zero tolerance what role have you played to ensure your children were grown with the fear of God. Before you begin to blame government, before you begin to blame police, let us change the way we pamper our children.

“This time we have become emotional victims to our children especially single mothers, because you want your child to be like the other person, it is not possible, become like Anna in the Bible, take your child to church, take your child to God.

“Most mothers don’t pray serious prayer to their children because she is in the church looking for who bewitched her, she gives the child orientation that everything in life happens by miracle, she prays and fasts from Monday to Sunday but she has told her child not to be greeting her neighbour.

“As a mother, as a community, let us re evaluate our characters, children are now encouraged to do rituals, yahoo yahoo and if you encourage your child to do ritual or yahoo yahoo, be sure that you are going to be the next victim. Your child will come home with iPhone, cars, you encouraged them, tomorrow you will start to blame the police.

“Let us look inwards,all the money we are acquiring is vanity upon vanity , the Bible said, show a child the way to follow, when he grows, he will not depart from it.

On the Police children’s school in Onitsha, the CP told the authorities to meet him so that the challenges of the school would be addressed.

He also advised tricycle drivers to desist from hanging curtains on their tricycles as the government, the lawmakers demanded, adding that they are not stupid by giving the directives because they know what they are doing and it is for a time.

The CP commended the Senior Special Assistant to the National chairman of PCRC on Interstate Project, Southeast zone, Sir Vic Agubisi, (Action chairman), and the PCRC Onitsha Police Area Command, for a successful hosting and honouring him with a chieftaincy title of “Agunechemba”.

He also commended the Onitsha Police Area Commander, Chidi Nzota, adding that he has been able to fight violent crimes within the short period he has stayed, adding that the state police command will not relent in sacking men of the underworld out of the state.

In his response on behalf of the entire PCRC and, stakeholders, Sir Vic said they welcomed the CP with satisfaction sequel to his relentless efforts in fighting crime to the barest minimum despite his short stay and prayed God to guard and protect him as he forged ahead.

“The security summit is very important especially now that crime has been drastically reduced in the state. There is need to enlighten the people in the state to be alert at all times and help to maintain the peaceful atmosphere by fishing out the hoodlums still living amongst the people as the hoodlums do not live in the bush.

“It was in a bid to eradicate crime and maintain absolute peace that the CP Urutugu was brought to the state to do the needful and you will all agree with me that security is everyone’s business and not only left for the security operatives.

“Our CP is a crime fighter who is well trained for the job and ever ready to sacrifice anything available with him to fight crimes. We can testify that within this short period of assumption of duty the CP has restructured and repositioned the state police command for optimum performance and the result of which we are enjoying today.

“For we, members of the PCRC we shall continue to offer our undiluted support to you and your men in order to rid the state of hoodlums completely,” he stated.

Based on the resolve of the CP to rid the state of crimes and criminality, Sir Vic, on behalf of the PCRC in the area, conferred chieftaincy title of “Agunechemba”, on the CP and the state police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) was not left out as he was also honoured with award.

Among those that graced the occasion included, Assistant Commissioner of Police, (ACP) Iwobi, Onitsha Police Area Commander, Mr. Chidi Nzota, (ACP), Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Central Police Station Onitsha, Mr Nnabuike (CSP), representative of the national chairman of PCRC who expressed satisfaction with the manner the CP has been piloting the affairs of the state and described him as a gallant officer.

Others were, chairman of Idemili North PCRC, Chief Augustin Udo, who expressed satisfaction with the summit and the CP tour of Onitsha Police Area Command, Among others to numerous to mention