Okezie Ikpeazu, Governor of Abia State in a bid to check the activities of touts who block the highways, extort money and embarrass the government through their illegal activities handed over patrol vehicles to the Ministry of Homeland Security Watch, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps as well as a fire fighting truck to the Abia State Fire Service at the Government House Umuahia.
He charged the Homeland Security Watch to join the other security agencies to protect Abia citizens from molestation while urging the Civil Defense Corps to especially focus on stamping out the menace of cultism in the state.
He also ordered the Commandant of Abia Fire Service to immediately clear all illegal occupants within the Aba premises of the Service or have the premises taken over by Government.
