Chaos in Onitsha as Pestle Boys Abduct Woman, Vigilantes

My question now is how did this matter concern my office that warrants Operation Udo Ga Achi to accompany the Akaodo boys to our office to destroy everything, loot, and abduct my men?

Following the alleged invasion of the office of the Awada Central Landlords Association by a combined team of the Special Anti-Touting Squad, SASA, and Agunechemba Squad, which allegedly kidnapped a lady clerk and two Vigilante operatives attached to the Awada Central landlords association, chaos broke out in the Awada neighbourhood of the commercial city of Onitsha, which is located in the state of Anambra of Nigeria.

Because they patrol streets and highways in their Hummer buses while armed with pestles and machetes, the SASA men in the state of Anambra are referred to as Ndi Akaodo, which literally translates to “Pestle Boys.”

Additionally, it is alleged that the combined team of SASA and Agunechemba destroyed properties worth millions of naira.

These properties included Vigilante vehicles, motorcycles, office doors, and windows. Following this, it was said that they fled with two assault English Pump Action rifles, telephone handsets, security gadgets, and an unspecified amount of money that ran into thousands of naira. The landlords association and the security operatives were the owners of the property.

According to the source, the claimed invasion, abduction, destruction, and carting away of their arms and other devices occurred after a skirmish between the enraged residents of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, who allegedly mistook them for kidnappers.

The source further claims that the residents of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, attacked them. In the middle of the conflict were the people who lived on Orsumoghu Street in Awada, as well as the Vigilante operatives who were affiliated with the Awada Central Landlords Association.

On the other hand, the SASA squad was located on the opposite side of the conflict.

Uchechukwu Jude Ukachi, who serves as the Chief Security Officer of the Awada landlords association, has stated that, “The angry street boys attacked the SASA men otherwise known as (Akaodo) (Pestle boys) in Osumoghu security sector, and when my men who are the Awada central vigilantes were called and informed about the attack. I told my Commander, Chukwuemeka Okoye to send his boys and when they went there, they discovered that the street boys were exchanging banters with the Akaodo boys.

“When they saw my vigilante men who had come to know their mission in Awada, the Akaodo boys abandoned the street boys who were having an altercation with them and faced my men to ask them about their mission in Awada.

“At once, the Akaodo boys launched a violent attack on my men; my Commander rushed to the scene and removed the keys of their Hummer bus, and asked my boys to go back to the office.

“The commander returned and gave me the situation report while handing me the Hummer bus key. When I saw it was a key to an official vehicle, I rushed to the scene to give them back their vehicle key but did not see any of them inside the car.

“When I asked the people around the area, they told me that all the Akaodo boys abandoned their Hummer bus and fled when the angry street boys intensified the attack against them.

“I told them that if any of them come back to the vehicle, they should tell them that I, the CSO Awada, asked them to come and collect their key from our office, and I went back to the office.

“My question now is how did this matter concern my office that warrants Operation Udo Ga Achi to accompany the Akaodo boys to our office to destroy everything, loot, and abduct my men?

“They even went to the extreme by climbing upstairs to the office of Awada Central Landlords Association to break the doors and ransacked all nooks and crannies.

“If I may ask again. How did the attack launched against the Akaodo boys by Awada Street Boys somewhere at Orsumoghu Street concern me and my men that warranted Operation Udo-Ga-Achi squad to come to our office to destroy and loot? I think it is a pure, calculated attempt and conspiracy designed to rubbish the name of my company, Jufuso Security Agency.”