PCRC Resolves Feud, Reconcile Warring Factions In Anambra

Perturbed by the leadership crises in the Anambra State chapter of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) its national leadership visited the state and resolved all the lingering crises.

In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday in Abuja the national chairman of the committee, Alhaji Mogaji Olaniyan Ibraheem who led the national executive team on the reconciliation move, after hearing from all the warring factions at a closed-door meeting held at the state police headquarters hall, Amawbia, asked everybody to sheath their sword and work in harmony with one another.

Ibraheem who shortly on arrival, paid a courtesy call on the state Commissioner of Police Echeng Echeng, urged everyone to carry the PCRC interest above what he described as personal or parochial interest.

He, however, extended the tenure of the incumbent state chairman of the committee, J. C. Ezenwankwo to December, this year and appointed Sir Vic Agubisi (acting chairman), chairman of PCRC, Onitsha Police Area Command and Ezenwankwo as an officer of PCRC in the Southeast zone.

In another development, PCRC has extended financial assistance to the family of Sgt. Ochoa Isaiah of Enugu State command, whose wife recently gave birth to a set of triplets, two boys and a girl.

The birth of the triplet brought the number of Sergeant and Mrs Ochai’s children to five as the couple already had two children, a boy and a girl.

The national chairman of the committee, Alhaji Mogaji Olaniyan Ibraheem who led the national executive team said the financial assistance extended to the couple was to support them, particularly the police sergeant.

In his response, Sgt. Ochoa Isaiah, the father of the triplets, who was overwhelmed with joy, thanked Ibraheem and members of PCRC for the financial assistance which, he said, would go a long way in helping the family to take care of the triplets.

He disclosed that his reconciliation team had already stormed Ebonyi State, and reconciled them before coming to Anambra, adding that their next target was Enugu State, from where they would go to other states of the federation.

He said new automated identity cards would be issued to members to invalidate all existing identity cards in possession of members throughout the federation.

Olaniyan also condemned the callous attack on a United States Consulate convoy and the killing and burning beyond recognition of seven persons including US Embassy local staff and Police Mobile Force Officers, and their vehicles, as well as the likely abduction of two others, at Atani Osamale Road, Ogbaru local government area of Anambra State.

He urged residents to support the police to curb the continuous violence, terrorist attacks, and cultism in Anambra and the country at large.