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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   COVER STORIES Anambra to acquire Okija shrines By Anayo Okoli, Kingsley Omonobi & Enyim Enyim Friday, August 13, 2004 AWKA —THE Anambra State is to acquire the vast expanse of land that currently accommodates the Okija shrines for public use. Already, the special police squad dispatched by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, to handle the investigation of the activities of ritualists at the shrines returned to Abuja yesterday with 31 suspects including one chief priest and four elderly men whose ages range between 60 and 75 years. The Anambra State Government in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr. Fred Chukwuelobe, said: “The attention of the Government of Anambra State has been drawn to various newspaper reports and insinuations regarding the recent police raids and destruction of the various shrines at Okija and the subsequent arrest of the chief priest and other priests of the infamous shrines. The government wishes to say that following the interim report on the matter by the state Commissioner of Police and other security agencies, it fully supports the raids and the destruction of the shrines and regards them as welcome developments. "The government of Anambra State sees the development as a good riddance to bad rubbish and at the appropriate time government will come out with a proposal for the acquisition of the said large expanse of forest land which the shrines had occupied for various government projects." 31 suspects in Police net Already, special police squad dispatched by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, to Okija in Anambra State in connection with the Okija shrines discovery yesterday returned to the Force Headquarters, Abuja with 31 suspects, including one chief priest and four elderly people whose ages were put at between 60 and 75 years. The arrival of the suspects coincided with the disclosure by a source at the Police Headquarters that some notable politicians among them top government officials in some eastern states and at the federal level had been mentioned by the suspects as sponsors of the shrines.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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