22/08/2025
*MOGHALU CONDEMNS UDOGACHI'S MOB BEATING OF CORPS MEMBER IN ANAMBRA, SAYS IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE AND EMBARRASSING*
Labour Party (LP) candidate in the November 8, governorship election in Anambra State, Chief George Moghalu has condemned as irresponsible and embarrassing the mob beating of a serving female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, by operatives of Udo Gachi homeland security at Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state a few days ago.
The Corp member identified as Geniffer Elohor was seen in a video that has since gone viral being beaten by over seven members of the ruthless security outfit, tossing her about and stripping her naked.
The state Police Command through its Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga,a Superintendent of police had on Tuesday condemned the assault on the female Corp member saying that the suspects had been identified.
While emphasizing that the alleged victim’s unavailability temporarily stalled on going investigations into the matter, nonetheless reiterated the command’s disapproval of any form of assault on anybody which he said remained a criminal offence under the Nigerian law.
The victim he said reserved the right to take necessary legal action to aid the court proceedings.
He had assured corps members serving across the state of the command’s commitment to their protection.
But Moghalu at a media conference in Awka Wednesday insisted that the Udo Gachi outfit should be disbanded for its uncivilized excesses, while its operatives should be trained and properly prepared to be a security outfit indoctrinated into how to relate with the civil society before being reconstituted.
“This is not the first time this kind of thing is happening. They have killed several people before for no tangible reasons. This should stop. To me, it is unacceptable.
Every person of good conscience should condemn it. This not about politics but decency.
“No matter the offence that corps member may have committed, what they should have done was to hand her over to the police for proper investigation. The Udo Gachi has no powers to put somebody in the dungeon or prosecute anybody.
“To worsen matters, the girl is a National officer serving her father land.
The actions of these Udo Gachi people are irresponsible and have caused the citizens of the state a monumental embarrassment.
“The people that set them up should disband and train them. They don’t have prosecutorial power. Their action is a total embarrassment to everybody”, he said.
He noted that the Udo Gachi outfit has become more of a political tool than a security outfit.
“Their activities during the August 16, Senatorial by-election exposed the fact that they were set up to do the dirty political work of their master.
“They were all over the place, cocking guns, beating voters and snatching boxes already stuffed with votes, tearing and scattering ballot papers on the road. And if I may ask,vis one confident that he won an election be doing all this?
“My party didn’t participate in the election because our candidate’s name was not downloaded by the Independent National Electoral Commission. That was why I was amused when Governor Soludo said he defeated APC, LP and ADC and they were non existent in the state.
“We didn’t participate in that election and they had a field day.
“But let me tell you, the election on November 8, will be a different ball game altogether. Anambra will speak. It is not a rocket science. LP is on ground”, he said.
The state government he also said should tell the people of the state the whereabout of the brutalized Corp member and should be brought out to tell her own part of the story.
He also called on the Federal government to as a matter of urgency do something about the Udo Gachi security people in Anambra because they are exceeding their bounds.
“Their activities on August 16, showed that they were set up for political purposes”, he said adding that the Federal government should rein them in unless ” they are telling the people to defend themselves on November 8″.