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Today, Governor Chukwuma Soludo will officially launch a robust, technologically-driven and community-based policing initiative known as “Operation Udo Ga-Achi”. This will be accompanied by the signing into law of the Anambra State Homeland Security Bill 2025, which has just been passed by the state’s house of assembly. These initiatives offer a comprehensive framework to secure Anambra State and modernize its security system.
As security deteriorated in 1998 in Anambra State and with the gradual failure of OTA Vigilante in Anambra to live up to expectation, there was a clamor to copy the modus operandi of Aba’s Bakassi Boys in Anambra State. This led to the formation of another vigilante group known as the Bakassi Boys of Anambra.
The new security law in Anambra provides for defined roles and responsibilities for security personnel, especially the newly formed ‘Agunechemba’. It makes provision for proper training and ensures that the newly formed security units maintain the highest level of ethical standard. Many critics of the then Bakassi Boys have argued that this was what was missing in Bakassi Boys’ operation.
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