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Sunday, November 28 2004 Search : Vol 13 No.44

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News ANAMBRA CRISIS Ezeife slams Obasanjo ‘It’s between you and us’ KENNETH OFOMA, Abakaliki First civilian governor of Anambra State and former adviser to President Obasanjo on political matters Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife has condemned the recent wanton destruction of property in Anambra State, describing the action as a clear case of madness. Dr. Ezeife made the condemnation while addressing members of the presidential committee on resolution of Anambra crisis who were in the state to assess the level of destruction by hoodlums. He said that the effort of the committee was relevant only to the extent that the parties to the dispute were properly identified, saying that the case was between President Olusegun Obasanjo and the people of Anambra State. Ezeife told the committee led by Ebonyi State Governor, Dr. Sam Egwu to tell "President Obasanjo and the Federal Government to come back and rebuild all that were destroyed."  He said that since paid agents of the Federal Government looked the other way while hoodlums destroyed the infrastructure for local government elections, council ,elections in the state "will now be when able." "In the meantime he should no longer withhold allocations to the local governments. Those local governments are still there, they are human beings being administered." Ezeife commended the people of the state for exercising restraint in the face of provocation when the vandals destroyed property in various parts of the state and gave kudos to students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka who watched the hoodlums set their bus ablaze without joining the fray. "Without it, this people would have got what they wanted. The message was clear: go and make some noise, kill a number of people, burn a number of places and I will give you state of emergency," he said. He threw his support for the setting up of a judicial commission of inquiry with a clear terms of reference as well as the commencement of public sitting by the state House of Assembly to unravel the perpetrators. Chairman of the Presidential Peace Committee, Dr. Sam Egwu told the people of the state that those who participated in the destruction must be prosecuted according to the law. Governor Egwu decried the role of the police in the matter, lamenting that all that were destroyed were not Governor Ngige’s property, but the property of Anambra State and that of some private individuals, and wondered why the police stood by and watched the destruction took place. The committee visited the areas of destruction, which include, Ikenga Hotels, the Women Development Centre, the state House of Assembly, the headquarters of the State Judiciary, Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission building, the Anambra State Broadcasting Service, among others.

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