In a major bid to tackle the security challenges facing Anambra State, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has unveiled the Anambra Homeland Security Law 2025 and launched a special security operation code-named “Operation Udo Ga-Achi”.
The Governor, who signed the Homeland Security Law 2025 on Saturday, stated that the law provides a framework for community/citizens’ ownership and participation in sustainable security and social re-engineering.
This was contained in a statement by Law Mefor, Commissioner for Information, Anambra State.
According to Governor Soludo, Operation Udo Ga-Achi is a special intervention force that complements regular policing. It is designed to enhance intelligence gathering, reward whistleblowers, enhance rapid response, and urgently root out criminals from every camp in Anambra State.
The Governor noted that the state’s security challenges are complex and hydra-headed, requiring a comprehensive and sustainable response. He emphasized that the state government is determined to fight criminality and ensure that Anambra becomes the safest state in Nigeria.
Key components of the Anambra Homeland Security Law 2025 include establishing a new vigilante architecture, “Agunechemba,” to assist and complement federal security forces; deploying technology, including tracking systems, command-and-control systems, and AI-powered surveillance cameras; and establishing a State Call Centre with toll-free lines.
Others include the payment of monthly security support grants to communities and the Payment of a monthly bonus of N10 million to Divisional Police Offices that record zero violent crimes.
The governor also announced that the state government would review the assistance provided to existing correctional centers and begin building new ones. He further stated that the government would work with the Commissioner of Police and DSS to identify top LGAs with violent crime histories.
Governor Soludo called on communities to urgently establish security governance structures and encouraged each community to design and execute its own “cleansing or restoration programme.”
He also reiterated the state government’s extension of the hand of friendship and amnesty to kidnappers, cultists, drug dealers, and other categories of criminals, urging them to surrender their arms and embrace rehabilitation.
The Governor emphasized that security is a collective responsibility and called on all citizens to support the state government’s efforts to ensure the safety and security of Anambra State.
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