Politicians provide vehicles used for attacks in Imo — Uzodimma

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The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma has accused politicians of supplying vehicles used by bandits for attacks in the state.

According to him, the car donors are new and will soon be exposed as their names will be made public.

Speaking on a radio chat to mark the nation’s Democracy Day, the governor attributed the spate of attacks to escaped inmates from the April 5 attack on the Owerri custodial centre of the Imo State headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS).

He said: “Most of the Sienna vehicles used in the attack were donated to these hoodlums by politicians during the campaigns and they failed to retrieve them after the election.

“We are compiling their names and we will soon make it Public.

“No government will sit by and allow hoodlums to take over his state.

“You will also recall that during the attack on Owerri Custodial centre, more than 1800 inmates were released.

“These were people who were arrested and tried for various offences and kept out of circulation.

“Now they have been unleashed to the society and causing havoc.

“I am happy that a good number of them are being re-arrested and returned back to where they escaped from.”

Uzodimma said that the directive to transport operators to brand their vehicles was to check banditry and prevent hoodlums from using unmarked cars to attack citizens.

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