Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth wing has condemned the alleged summon of the Uzo-Uwani native authorities chairman, Mr Chijioke Ezugwu by the Enugu State police command.
The group stated ought to the harassment of the LG chairman proceed, it could be left with no choice than to mobilize the Igbo youths for a mom of all protests.
Ugamatv stories that rampaging herdsmen have killed scores of individuals in Uzo-Uwani previously weeks, resulting in the strengthening of inner safety to safeguard the residents.
Nonetheless, in line with SaharaReporters, the council boss was summoned, alongside the vigilante group, to the state police command headquarters.
In response to the media platform, “The DCP, a northerner, reportedly interrogated the council chairman “on the allegations of killing herdsmen.
“The intention was to cease the council chairman from flushing out the criminals and kidnappers who’ve been masquerading as herders to unleash terror on the folks.”
In a press release issued by the Nationwide President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he described the reported summon of the council chairman as unacceptable.
Okwu, whereas urging the police to return clear on the allegation, stated it was lamentable that the police made no critical effort to arrest the herdsmen who’ve killed a number of individuals in Uzo-Uwani however had been fast to summon the council chairman for securing his folks.
He stated the group had waited to see if the police might refute the report, “however their silence implies that certainly the council chairman was summoned for shielding his folks.”
The Ohanaeze youth president, who claimed that what’s going on in Uzo-Uwani was worse than Benue, famous that “the circumstances there are underreported. There may be hardly any day that Fulani herdsmen will not be both abducting folks for ransom or launching unprovoked assaults on communities within the space.
“One of many worst circumstances is that of the 90-year-old man murdered in chilly blood, alongside his spouse.
“However in all of those, the police haven’t arrested the perpetrators, nor stopped the carnage.
“The one respite that got here was by means of the vigilante {groups} who determined to guard their communities, solely to the failure of the police to safeguard them.”
He stated it was then unacceptable that as a substitute of collaborating with the council boss to maintain the efforts, the police determined to embolden the perpetrators by extending such a summon to the chairman.
He urged the Enugu State Police Command to return clear on the allegations, else the general public might understand it as “emboldening these killing, maiming, and sacking communities in Uzo-Uwani and different elements of Enugu State.
“Ought to this harassment proceed, we shall be left with no choice than to mobilize the complete Igbo youths for a mom of all protests.”