Ebonyi State government, has said to shutdown some hotels,
restaurants and drinking joints in the state for allowing
hoodlums hiding in to commit crime in the state
The state’s Commissioner for Border Peace and Conflict
Resolution, Chief
Stanley Okoro Emegha stated this in a statement in
Abakaliki.
He decried that hoodlums have formed the habit of hanging
out in hotels, restaurants and joints in the state till late in the night from
where they usually take off to perpetrate crimes and all forms of anti-social
vices in the state capital.
He further said that the state government has perfected
arrangements to seal the affected joints if the proprietors assumed to be
partners in crime with the hoodlums fail to refrain themselves from such
reprehensible acts, and Landlords of such hotel proprietors will equally not be
left out in the government sealing order
"The government observed that some managers of night
clubs in the state have allowed some of their customers to parade a retinue of
minors and under aged youths especially teenage girls below the age of 18 years
who it said usually indulge in all manner of immoral lifestyle at awkward hours
of the night without recourse to the state government’s Attitudinal Change
Campaign.
Therefore, government
threatened to revoke the right of occupancy of any landlord or penalize
any hotel manager for condoning such immoral conduct which, according to it,
tend to compromise the future of Ebonyi youths". Emegha said.
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