*carte fowls, goats off
By Chuks Collins, Awka
As the numerical strength of the insurgents that have unleashed havoc on Lilu community in Ihiala Council of Anambra State reportedly continues to go down fast, while hunger and other difficulties have beaten them badly.
The hoodlums, according to security sources and inhabitants of the area were reported to have literally become hysterical since the community 5Youths took over control of the security, peace, representation of Lilu last year.
The insurgents, our investigations revealed, have bitterly blamed the renewed and enriched Conversation about their nefarious activities in the area given rise by the well-attended Lilu Youth Development Forum(LYDF) conference on with the theme: “Productive Youths, Peaceful Community”.
The citizens’ initial fears and reluctance to come out or discuss the issue had given the hoodlums a false impression of invisibility and bravado.
But the speed with which the Youth Conference was planned and executed took them by surprise, our source learnt.
The two-day(Jan 9 and 10) conference which held at the conference hall of the Ihiala Council Headquarters as scheduled got a big boost with the attendance of the traditional ruler of Lilu, Igwe Godson Onyediri, members of his cabinet, stakeholders and some local and foreign development partners/investors who he brought in from USA to help turn the economy of Lilu around.
The pressure mounted on the hoodlums since the youths sustained media presence and round-the-clock security monitor to avoid sweeping their challenges under the carpet or forgetting it completely has encouraged every citizen of the area to join the struggle to flush out all the social misfits from their surrounding bushes.
Onyediri noted that yesterday the villagers raised another round of alarm that they invaded their community carting all the yuletide stock of edibles in their homes especially the bags of rice, other palliatives donated and distributed by kind-hearted citizens.
That it was shocking they invaded premises and took away dogs, fowls and goats, tubers of yam etc.
This, the monarch admitted wasn’t too surprising due to the noose tightly gripping their necks and waists right now from diverse corners.
He expressed strong belief that the countdown of the end of the days of their nefarious enterprise has since begun.
What with the daily aerial and ground surveillance of the Odochi stream axis and the stretch bothering Lilu, and Ezinifite communities, both in Anambra State and Orsuihiteukwa communiy in Imo State where they initially took as their inviolable abode and safe haven.
Investigations also disclosed that kidnap/robbery victims, rapes, fetish rituals, and other heinous acts were usually carried out here.
But now they have become aware that they are now naked as virtually everyone including the police, the soldiers and the locals, etc now know their location, the routes, biting hunger, very poor numerical and logistical challenges, hence currently very vulnerable from multiple fronts.
Lilu stakeholders led by Onyediri, according to disclosures at the recent peace summit/conference have now teamed up with the security including police, the
Army, the DSS and local operatives in concert with Imo State intend to unleash a one of it’s kind offensive on the insurgents soon.
