By Nwabueze Okonkwo

Pandamonium erupted in the Awada area of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, following the alleged invasion of the office of Awada Central Landlords Association by a combined team of Special Anti-Touting Squad, SASA and Agunechemba Squad who allegedly abducted a lady clerk and two Vigilante operatives attached to the Awada Central landlords association.

In Anambra state, the SASA men are known as Ndi Akaodo (Pestle Boys) because their Hummer buses patrol streets and highways while armed with pestles and machetes.

The SASA/Agunechemba combined team also allegedly destroyed properties worth millions of naira, including Vigilante vehicles, motorcycles, office doors, and windows, after which they were said to have bolted away with two assault English Pump Action rifles, telephone handsets, security gadgets and an unspecified amount of money running into thousands of naira belonging to the landlords association and the security operatives.

The alleged invasion, abduction, destruction, and carting away of their arms and other gadgets, according to the source, followed a scuffle between the angry residents of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, who allegedly mistook them for kidnappers.

On one side, the residents of Orsumoghu Street, Awada, and the Vigilante operatives attached to the Awada Central Landlords Association were at the center of the scuffle, and on the other, the SASA squad was on the opposite side.

According to the Chief Security Officer, CSO of the Awada landlords association, Uchechukwu Jude Ukachi, “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.




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