Vice President Yemi Osibanjo has condemned the attack of armed hoodlums who attacked the correctional facility and police headquarters located at Shell Camp in Owerri.
He said that the state's capital, Owerri had it's peace shattered by heavily armed hoodlums who facilitated the escape of over 1,000 inmates and burnt several vehicles at the police headquarters at Shell Camp. They attempted to over take the police armory but was repelled by police operatives.
According to him, " It is not merely an attack on law and order. It is a mindless attack on the people and the way of life of the people. When you attack police stations and free dangerous criminals, you put women, men, children and their possessions and livelihoods at risk.
'Whatever the motives of the perpetrators, the action is egregious and atrocious in the extreme and all men and women of goodwill must openly condemn this assault on the way of life of the good people of this State."
The vice president stressed that the Owerri region has witnessed terrible cost of lives, liberty and progress than any other part of the country because of people who believe that to resolve issues and conflicts other than by violence is cowardliness.
He said,
"If the voices of their hatred prevail, we will experience the terrible and fruitless loss of life that violence begets. Our system is not perfect, and we can only seek to perfect it, indeed no earthly system is perfect, but what democracy and the institutions of democratic governance provide, are channels, however imperfect for seeking redress for injury, for peacefully addressing the problems that ail us."
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