As part of efforts to checkmate insecurity in Anambra State, the government has issued strict security directives to hotel owners are landlords.
The directive, signed by the Special Adviser to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Community Security, Ken Emeakayi, made it mandatory for all hotel owners to ensure that every guest lodging in their facility must submit a copy of any government means of identification like a National Identity Card, International passports or Voters Card, to the hotel.
“The hotel must photocopy all these documents and submit them to the president general of the community, who, in turn, submits to the local government mayor and then to the state government.
“Any hotel or guest house who fails to submit these documents will forfeit his or her lodging facility to the government and will equally answer for such offence,” he said.
All landlords and landladies in the directives must go to their presidents general and obtain a form for the various tenants occupying their houses or shops.
Emeakayi said that all landlords and landladies must ensure they know every detail about tenants in their houses or shops through the forms they will fill out using any government means of identification.
He said that any landlord or landlady who fails to submit all the forms filled by his or her tenants to the government through the President General shall forfeit his or her building and also answer for the offence committed by the tenant.
“All PGs of every town must know that they are now the chairman of the security committee of Agunaechemba in their various communities and must take charge of the daily operations of Agunaechemba security outfit.
“Every President General must give detailed reports every month about the security operations to the government and any PG who fails to submit these monthly reports stands suspended and will face the full sanctions by the government,” the directive added.
The Special Adviser to Gov Soludo on Community Security also encouraged the members of the public to key into the whistleblowing policy of the government by reporting kidnappers and be rewarded with five million Naira and above.
