The Government of Abia State, on Wednesday, expressed dismay at the activities of criminal elements who are engaged in the nefarious act of vandalizing street light poles and iron rods used for drainage works in Aba and selling them as a scrap.
In a release by Chief Okey Ahiwe, the Chief of Staff to the Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, forwarded to AFRIPOST on Wednesday, the Government, observed that such act is being perpetrated by metal scrap dealers (akpakara) with the help of cart pushers, and also viewed such action as economic sabotage and will not sit back and watch criminal elements sabotage public Infrastructure in the state.
The Government directed security agencies in Abia state to strengthen the security of public Infrastructure in the state and fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crimes and bring them to book.
According to the release, “the Governor in the same vein, directs the Hon Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Chief John Okiyi Kalu , to immediately take steps to set up a taskforce to ensure that business of scrap dealing in Abia state is sanitized”.