Ohaneze faction condemn Emene killings, asks security agencies to tackle killer herdsmen
A faction of Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned the senseless attacks on innocent civilians in the South East region of Nigeria.
The group expressed worries on why the state Commissioner of Police was quick to attack unarmed members of Indigenous People Of Biafra during their meeting in Emene, Enugu State, on Sunday, but cannot invite the Army, Air Force and other security agents over killer-herdsmen who has been on rampage in the South-East.
This is according to a statement in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State, by Mr. Uche Achi-Okpagha, Acting Secretary-General and National Publicity Secretary where it expressed shock on how the security agencies will unleash such mayhem on members of a peaceful group.
He said: “Ohanaeze has kept a studied silence on the issue. In my personal opinion, I heard the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, on the radio saying he contacted the Army and the Air Force and I pitied myself and my people.
“Don’t we have rules of engagement in Nigeria again? How can you be unleashing such an extra-maximum force on civilians?
“Note that they were not seen on the road or streets disturbing the peace of the environment.
“How many times has he invited the Army and Air Force to the bushes in Enugu State where our people are killed, maimed, women and daughters raped by killer-herdsmen or bandits as you may have it?
“How many times did he invite them to our farms and villages being pulverized by these miscreants?
“In the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, when truckloads of people from the North were coming into Enugu, did he invite the Army and the Air Force to stop them?
“It were better that he did not make any statement at all. I urge the IGP to order a full-scale investigation into the matter, where, in the guise of maintaining peace, a lot of budding young men were gunned down by the combined security forces.
“What kind of peace was achieved in the whole exercise? Even if they were IPOB members, I have never heard of them attacking anybody in Enugu.
“It is completely unfortunate as it is unfair to unleash such force on civilians who were without guns.
“This is democracy for crying out loud. The duty of the police is to arrest and prosecute not to kill.
“I watched a viral video of the Shi’ites (also said to be proscribed) in Abuja addressing and attacking the person and integrity of the President in the full glare of the Police,” the Ohanaeze scribe added over the attack on IPOB members.
Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News
