Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA, Brigade has shut down an illegal office opened by impersonators of Anambra Internal Revenue Service, AIRS in Ogbaru.

 

They also arrested nine suspects involved in the illegal activity during the raid.

The raid was carried out by the Special Task Force set up by OCHA Brigade and Anambra Vigilante Services.

 

Briefing Journalists on the development , the Public Relations Officer of OCHA Brigade, Mr. Anthony Agbaefune, said the arrests followed petitions received by the Brigade from the residents of the area who were extorted by the gangs.

Mr. Agbaefune emphasized that each of the suspects were caught red handed in the illegal activity.

 

According to him, the state government had made known its zero tolerance for all kinds of touting activities just as he assured that it remains government’s priority to protect law-abiding citizens of the state against criminal elements.

Some of the suspects, including Mr. Chidiebere Nweke and Chukwuebuka Anyanwu denied culpability in the allegations leveled against them.