Anambra State Government has launched “Operation End Agbero” to enforce its ban on touts, commonly known as “agboros” and their activities in Anambra State, with over twenty five (25) persons arrested and arraigned.
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The suspects were arrested during a recent raid carried out by a crack team of OCHA Brigade at Upper Iweka and Obosi areas of Anambra State.
The Professor Chukwuma Soludo-led government has repeatedly stated that agboros have been banned in the State because it does not provide a sustainable means of livelihood and it encourages anti-social behaviours that are incompatible with a livable and pleasurable new Anambra.
The government had offered to provide agboros with employment but they must, first of all, go and register their names and phone numbers with their respective Local Governments.
According to a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, the Ocha Brigade Commander disclosed that his men will ramp up their enforcement in days ahead since these touts have refused to accept the olive branch extended to them by the government.
It could be recalled that upon resumption of office, Governor Soludo declared that his administration will put to end, any form of touting/Agbero in the State and has since enjoined youths of Anambra to enroll in skill training and other youth empowerment programmes that will help take them off the streets.
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