Soludo offers amnesty to gunmen terrorising Anambra
Tamarauemi Ebimini
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has, again, offered amnesty to gunmen terrorising residents of the state.
Mr Soludo announced this, on Wednesday, during a press briefing in Awka, Anambra State.
A video clip of the briefing is published on YouTube.
Like other states in the South-east, Anambra has witnessed increased attacks by gunmen lately.
A lawmaker, earlier this year, was killed and then beheaded by gunmen in the state. Two former lawmakers have been abducted and then killed by gunmen said to be part of Biafra agitation in the South-east.
Office buildings of some local government councils in the state have been attacked by hoodlums in recent times.
Aside from government facilities, several residents have been killed and others abducted in renewed attacks by the gunmen in the state.
Mr Soludo said his administration was still open to offering amnesty to the gunmen to drop their rifles and be trained to be productive.
The governor said it is disturbing that young people were wasting their lives in criminalities, and assured that his government was ready to offer “a new future” to any of them prepared to drop their weapons.
This is the second time Mr Soludo would offer amnesty to gunmen in the state.
The governor first made the offer in July after visiting the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, at the facility of the State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja.
