By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is this magic pot that they say mints hot money fast.
The magic pot is called Okeite, and many juju doctors and ill-assorted witch-catchers boast of the insuperable powers of Okeite.
The current dimension in Anambra State is that all the criminals powered on by Okeite are all on the run.
One armed robber was recently caught in his native Ebonyi State robbing a motorcyclist with a shotgun.
In his confessional statement, the nabbed robber revealed that he had been plying his evil trade in Anambra State, but ever since Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, launched Operation Udo-Ga-Achi and put Agunechemba troops to work Anambra became too hot to operate in!
The pathetic robber had to return to his home state of Ebonyi where law enforcement agents captured him and put him up on social media for the world to see.
Indeed, Anambra is truly too hot for all criminals today.
Not even their Okeite powers can save them again from the hot onslaught of Soludo’s fire.
For Governor Soludo, dealing with the clear and present danger of insecurity in Anambra State had been on the front burner from the very beginning.
Before he came into office, criminals had all but taken almost complete control of eight local governments in Anambra State, namely: Aguata, Ihiala, Ekwusigo, Nnewi North, Nnewi South, Ogbaru, Orumba North and Orumba South.
These daredevil criminals had built idolatrous camps from where they operated.
The satanic camps had the full complement of shrines where people were sworn to a conspiracy of silence.
The situation was dire and demanded an uncommon solution.
Dubious Dibias and fishy Ezenwanyis did not help matters as they have kept on calling on Ekwensu, alias Satan, to deal with Soludo!
You can hear their unhidden calls all over social media.
These locally medicated Dibias and Ezenwanyis claim that since God is for Soludo, they have taken total embrace of Ekwensu as the necessary African power to counter the governor.
Their narrative is that the name Ekwensu does not translate to Satan as depicted by the early Christian missionaries!
As things stand, no harm has come the way of Soludo since these diabolical blokes started calling for the devil to intervene on their behalf.
It is even getting worse for the native-doctors as Soludo has asked all of them to register their trade with the government.
Which stands to reason, as anyone who claims to have supernatural powers can just decide to disappear when locked up in prison!
The bush-doctors have thus far not taken the option of showcasing their powers of disappearance when locked up in the jailhouse.
Soludo is unrelenting in engaging the traditional authorities, market leaders, prelates and priests to buy into his drive to cleanse Anambra State of the monsters of diabolism and insecurity.
In launching the Udo-Ga-Achi operation, Soludo has put to task members of the dreaded Agunechemba squad to take the battle directly to the rampaging Okeite vendors and criminals.
The various camps of the hoodlums have been routinely invaded with fiercer force, and it’s such a revelation seeing their idols, the registers they kept to record ransom payment, decaying human corpses etc.
The war on insecurity as per ritualists and Okeite get-rich-quick agents has exposed the fact that the so-called “Unknown Gunmen” were not spirits but people known in their communities and neighbourhoods.
The twice-told tale about Fulani herdsmen being solely behind the criminalities coming from the bush was trashed when full-blooded Igbo men and women got captured at will.
The Fulani only taught them the civilization of going to live in the bush!
Governor Soludo has since created special telephone numbers for Ndi-Anambra to call the authorities to divulge information on the criminals, and he pointedly stated: “If you see something, say something!”
It was only fear that was making the people not to reveal the identities of the killers, marauders and Okeite dubious dibias to the authorities.
With the launch of Operation Udo-Ga-Achi and the no-nonsense Agunechemba fit-fighting front, Anambra is now too hot for Okeite and the so-called Yahoo-Yahoo Boys who are actually kidnappers that believe in wealth without work.
The fake native doctors fortifying the hoodlums are now running for their lives, as well as the dibias masquerading as pastors.
It’s worthy of reiteration that it’s all so hot for all ill-assorted criminals and their cohorts on the Anambra front.
As if to ram it in, Governor Soludo is always interfacing with the Presidents-General of Town Unions of Anambra communities, and I recently heard the PG of Ogbunka town in Orumba South LGA lamenting how the criminalities in his domain were laid bare to him by Mr. Governor such that he was barely saved from being disgraced out of power pronto!
The core value of hard work of the republican Igbo can return now that Okeite and its criminals are on the run.
- Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is a renowned poet, journalist and author
