Cultism, drug business: Abia community cries for help

Inhabitants of Ndiolumbe in Isiala Ngwa South, Abia State have decried the high wave of cultism, drug business, rape and other related crimes in the community.

They appealed to the Abia state Police Command, Army, Nigerian Civil Defence, Nigerian Drug Law enforcement Agency (NDLEA), to come to their rescue.

In their separate interviews with sources in the community who craved anonymity, they decried the activities of the miscreants, saying that people now go about the community in fear of group of boys who are between the ages of 18 and 22 years and operate within the Ahia Orie Nwankwo Ugo axis of the community.

One of them (name withheld) narrated his encounter with the boys in June.

According to him, he saw movements of unidentified faces around the market and approached them, but to his dismay, the boys grabbed him and wanted to beat him up, forcing him to flee the area.

He called on the Police, Army, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and others to come to their rescue.

On his part, a private security officer in the Community, alluded to the fact that some miscreants within the community and outside, congregate at odd hours at a spot to take all kinds of hard drugs, after which they rape young girls in the community, rob market women of their belongings.

The personel who refused to make his name known said he has made several efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer in the State but that he has refused to take his calls.

He called on security operatives to wade into the matter and arrest the miscreants who are out to bring bad name to the community.

Also contributing, a community chieftain, Elder Okey Agbara, said the situation was worrisome.

He wondered government and security agencies have kept mute on the matter despite several appeals by elders in the community to arrest the perpetrators of the crime who stay around Ahia Orie market.

Elder Agbara called on security agencies to save the community against impending breakdown of law and order, adding that the situation is like a time bomb which if allowed to explode, would get to other zones in the State.

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