Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- The new Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Ikioye Orutugu, has vowed to fight rising attacks in the state.

Mr Orutugu, at a press briefing hours after his resumption as the state police commissioner on Monday, said he would stabilise the state's security architecture.

A text of the press briefing was forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday evening.

Like other states in Nigeria's South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State in recent times with frequent attacks by armed persons.

On 24 December 2024, for instance, Justice Azuka, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly was abducted by gunmen.

On Thursday, a joint security team found the lawmaker's decomposing body at Second Niger Bridge in Onitsh...