HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, also said policing in the South-East has collapsed, hence, gunmen have been on rampage non-stop in the last two years despoiling the peaceful land Igbos were once proud of.
According to data sourced from the Council on Foreign Relations and National Security Tracker, 128 innocent persons were killed in Enugu, 93 killed in Ebonyi, 64 in Imo, 130 in Anambra, and 34 in Abia, all in 2022 alone.
Onwubiko said, “Policing in the five states that make up the South-East has not only collapsed but apparently, there is no political will by the Federal Government to protect the people of the zone as gunmen have continued to destroy the strategic national security assets and kill Igbo people in the zone.
“President Buhari on Monday in Kano said Boko Haram has links to international groups bent on destroying Nigeria. Yet, he has been silent on the nexus between activities of certain indigenous non-state actors with foreign passports based in Europe stoking the embers of mass killings through the continuous enforcement of Monday’s sit-at-home order in the South-East of Nigeria. Why is Mr President not seeing the nexus between foreign based sponsors and the killings in the South East?
“The mandate for international diplomacy falls within the ambit of the Federal Government. So, the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to take diplomatic steps to protect the South-East from foreign-sponsored terrorism fueled through social media platforms by ways of broadcasting hate filled messages and suspected supplies of logistics under the guise of agitation for self-determination is condemnable. “
News Source: Independent.ng
