Politics
THE Civil Liberties Organization Anambra State Branch has applauded Anambra State governor for listening to the patriotic demands of CLO, NUJ, ONICCIMA and others that appealed to Anambra State governor, Professor Charles Soludo, to pay the hospital bills of Okechukwu Akaneme, former Chairman of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and ensure prompt and immediate prosecution of perpetrators.
He was assaulted, manhandled and brutalized by ASWAMA contractors while trying to effect payment of sanitation levy. He sustained spinal cord injury, now incapacitated and paralyzed.
The governor has demonstrated political will, empathy, responsiveness and strength of character and care to help ameliorate the plight, preaching, and sufferings of the senior citizen as a result of the spinal cord injury he sustained from brutality, harassment, assault and injury inflicted on him by unconscionable ASWAMA Contractors.
Reacting further to the cheering news of the government promise to pay the hospital bills of Akaneme, Vincent Ezekwueme, Chairman CLO stated that it is a clear indication that he is listening, humane and empathic governor, shares in the sufferings, agony and pains of victims, family, people of goodwill and all those clamoring for justice for Akaneme.
His Excellency should take further step by ensuring urgent and immediate prosecution of the culprits to act as deterrents to others and merely revocation of the contract is not enough, perpetrators must be made to face the full wrath of law to help curtail incessant assault, brutality, rascality and man’s inhumanity against man and official misconducts by some officials and staff of government agencies.
“We appeal to Governor Soludo to extend such hospitality and humanitarian disposition to citizen Nkemakolam Nnamani, who was brutalized at Upper Iweka by officials of State Anti-Touting Squad and now handicapped ,she uses crutches to work around her resident at 87 Oraifite Street,Awada in Obosi, which CLO had earlier attracted the attention of the Anambra State Government alongside the plight of Akaneme.
It is very pathetic that her children are now out of school and her house rent has expired, now she lives at the mercy of the landlord and neighbors, she may be evicted if urgent steps are not take to help her.
She has been lamenting and crying, saying is it because she is not connected, poor and came from Enugu State that government looks indifference and unconcerned over her predicament.
A.I
Dec. 15, 2024
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