•Commiserate with Police over death of officers, destruction of facilities
No fewer than three hundred members of a community based group known as Aba Landlord Associations on Tuesday, joined the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) as Volunteer Club Members and were inducted by the Abia state Chairman of the POCACOV Volunteer Club Amb. Darlington Onuoha Kalu.
The event took place during the POCACOV community peace building and engagement programme organized for members of the Aba Landlords Association held at Unubi hall Ngwa road, Aba, Abia state.
The National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu represented by Amb. Darlington Kalu Onuoha, reminded the community based association that they are pivotal in the community oriented policing activities as they have people living in their various properties located in and around a given community and charged them to continue to work with different stakeholders, the Nigeria Police Force and other policing actors to achieve the aim of the community peace building scheme of the POCACOV Volunteer Club for safer school and community.
He noted that POCACOV represents a new approach by the Nigeria Police in combating cultism and other vices and galvanizing stakeholders support to save Nigerian children and youths from the claws of cultism and other vices thus giving them strategic leadership direction.
Responding on behalf of other inducted POCACOV Volunteer Club members, the President General Aba Landlords Protection and Development Association(ALPADA), Chief Udeigbo commended the efforts of the Nigeria Police Force under IGP Mohammed Adamu for coming up with such a community driven programme wherein the police will be working with the community to ensure safety and security as well as the immediate disbandment of the SARS unit of the police force.
He also commiserated with the Nigeria Police Force over the death of its personnel and destruction of police facilities during the violent #EndSARS protests that took place across the country and assured of the maximum partnership with the Nigeria Police Force on the realization of peace, safety and security under the POCACOV community peace building as contained in the sustainable development goal (16 PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS) of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).
“We must identify with the police because police cannot do without the community and same with the community,” Chief Udeigbo concluded.
