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BREAKING: *Akiyi-Umulokpa Gets Neighborhood Watch Association*




*•As Ezugwu, Enugu Commissioner, Inaugurate Security Outfit, Task them on Dedication*


The Akiyi-Umulokpa Neighborhood watch association was earlier today, 27 of June, 2025, officially inaugurated by the Executive Chairman of Uzo Uwani Local Government Area, Barr. Chijioke Ezugwu, alongside the commissioner for human development and poverty eradication in Enugu State, Malachy Agbo. 


The security outfit saddled with the responsibility of maintaining peace in the community, will work in synergy with the police to ensure effective and adequate security of lives and property of people in the hinterlands. 


The inauguration however, followed an application by the community to the Enugu State ministry of human development and poverty eradication, for the reconstitution of the local security outfit in the community, following the expiration of its earlier registration which dated back to 2014. 


During the event, the council chairman who was represented by the Secretary of the local government, Barrister Casmire Adamu, tasked the newly inaugurated outfit to be dedicated in the discharge of their responsibilities, while also noting that the idea was part of Barr. Ezugwu's administration’s effort to ensure security of lives and property of people of the LGA. 


In his own remarks, the secretary of Enugu State Neighborhood Watch, Mr. Okonkwo Aloysius who took his time to grill the new security operatives on the use of security apparatus, cautioned that any member of the group found working outside the constitutional provisions of the local outfit woulld be prosecuted before dismissal, as provided by the law. 


"From today, you now have two laws guiding your activities. One is the Nigerian constitution. Second is the law establishing neighborhood watch," he said. 


The Hon. Commissioner for human development and poverty eradication in the state, Malachy Agbo, was represented by the Director of Neighborhood Watch in Enugu State, Chief Uchenna Ozongbachi during the occasion. 

The inauguration was facilitated by the president General Akiyi-Umulokpa Town Union, Engr. Chief Malachi Anikwe and his excos. 

Those present during the official inauguration were DPO Uzo-Uwani LGA,  Mr. Okonkwo; Mr. Linus Eze, PG Umulokpa Town Union; Chief Ezenwa Patrick who is In charge of documentary activities in Enugu State; among others.


Congratulations to Akiyi-Umulokpa!

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