Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has urged the people of the state to observe a one-day prayer session to curb the activities of gunmen terrorizing the state and the South East Zone in general.
The governor said the prayer session slated to hold on Monday, in churches and other worship centers, across the state, was necessary to counter the evil attached to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sit-at-home order.
Governor Soludo stated this last Saturday, during a stakeholders peace meeting with Security Chiefs, Traditional Rulers, and Religious Leaders, at Prof. Dora Akuyilli Women Development Centre, Awka.
He said that prayer has become necessary to seek spiritual solutions to the challenges currently affecting economic activities in the zone.
He explained that the prayer session was to seek the face of God against those hiding under IPOB to wreck havoc in the state.
The governor appealed to citizens and residents of the state as well as all religious groups to join in the important day of prayer expected to take place within the premises of Cathedrals, Churches, and prayer houses across the state and beyond.
He stressed that it was clear to all that the Sit-at-home order was ill-advised and counterproductive and not the solution to the release of the Leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, adding that efforts are on to ensure speedy resolution of issues surrounding his detention.
Professor Soludo asserted that every Monday, was a very important day to Ndi-Anambra and the government, regretting that the state loses millions of naira as a result of the order.
Soludo used the peace meeting to announce that soon the government under his watch, will establish a registration center to rehabilitate touts, illegal tax collectors, and other criminal elements and empower them to become useful to their families, communities, the state, the region and the country at large.
