Chief Chidiebele Obika, President-General of Nteje Town Union and Senior Special Assistant to Governor Soludo on Media, said the town was grateful to God for finally embracing peace for progress and unity.
Obika, who revealed this to our correspondent in Awka, stated that prior to the community's request for a compulsory truce, Nteje was a war zone due to random constant arrests and illegal detentions in police and military cells.
Obika revealed that the Nteje community had been in crisis for the past seven months; it was like a community where law and order did not exist and individuals could pick anyone at random and incarcerate them nonetheless.
However, he stated that the status quo altered when he became the PG of Nteje Town Union and pushed on maintaining peace and order in the neighbourhood. Obika stated that the initial attempt at achieving peace in Nteje town was to release their people who were imprisoned in various cells of security agencies such as the Army, DSS, and others.
Following that, he said, they injected transparency into leadership and suspended youth activities, including villages that were causing a crisis in the town, and then began to sensitise the people about the need for peace to return to Nteje, adding that the 2022 Christmas celebration was the first in the last five years to be celebrated without fracas and nobody attacked the other.
Obika also revealed that the Nteje village hasn't hosted any Town Union meetings, let alone elections, in the last five years. It was with the arrival of his caretaker leadership that they persisted on holding meetings to discuss the future of the Nteje community, despite the fact that he indicated that the town union election was scheduled for January 28th, 2023.
Obika, who told our correspondent that he was running for President-General of Nteje Town Union, said it was Ezi-turn Nteje's to produce the next PG, and he is from Ezi-Nteje.
form id=1 mailerlite form He stated that as the caretaker PG, his leadership has accomplished three key things: peace may be restored in the Nteje village. That people can tell the truth and still live, and no lion will devour them because they did. That they have been able to place Nteje on the path of progress, and that whoever succeeds him will be able to continue on that path.
Obika also stated that the Nteje community has donated approximately 50 plots of land to the Anambra State Government for the construction of the Anambra State Central Drug Store and the Airport Pharmaceutical Couching Room, and that the Nteje community is completely supportive of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo's administration.
(Source: independent.ng)
