THE Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Prof Epiphany Azinge, has vowed that the ongoing fight against crime and criminality in the capital city of Asaba will be sustained.
The monarch, who was responding to remarks by the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-Haq Oloyode, who visited him in his palace, noted that moral decadence amongst present day primary and secondary school students had assumed a worrisome dimension.
He said the development had taken a toll on the reading culture, as most of the pupils and students engaged in cultism and drug addiction at the expense of their studies, thereby leaving them with the option to cheat in order to pass their examinations.
The Asagba remarked that more worrisome was the infiltration of cultism into primary schools, disclosing that he had visited some schools in the community to address the students on the need to shun social vices and focus on their studies, while the Asaba Anti-Cult Unit was working hard to bring the menace under control. The monarch added that drug peddling and addiction were also being fought frontally, revealing that drug outlets in the community were recently raided by security operatives and arrests made, even in the face of a fight back.
Azinge told the JAMB helmsman that the get – rich – quick syndrome had forced some youths into cybercrime and rituals for money, which made him to ban the activities of Eze Nwanyi one month after ascending the throne.
The traditional ruler commended Prof. Oloyode for his intimidating profile and achievements, noting that his administrative ingenuity had helped to restore sanity, stability and integrity to JAMB.
