Based on a press release made available to Abia Facts News, Abia State Government has uncovered plots by hoodlums to disrupt the peace, loot shops and other properties in the state under the guise of protesting against RUGA settlements in Abia and other South East States.

In the statement, the government made it clear that the state does not have any land for RUGA or any similar settlement in Abia State and have not provided or negotiated with any individual, group or institution concerning it.

In furtherance of the plan to protect the properties and lives of citizens, the release also revealed that the state has set up the ministry of homeland security with a substantive commissioner to further strengthen the security of lives and property of citizens and residents of the state as well as curtail any possibility of farmers-herdsmen clashes.

They therefore warned those behind the plots to attack innocent persons and loot people’s properties under whatever guise to desist from that path as law enforcement agencies have been put on full alert to deal decisively with those seeking to disrupt the existing peace in the state.