Ebonyi killings: FG not doing enough – Group

A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Victims of Persecution, has condemned the killings of indigenes of four communities in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi state by suspected herdsmen.

Rapporteur of the group,
Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, SAN, in a statement Thursday, said the federal government was not doing enough to end the killings.

Ume, who is also a former Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice in Imo state, regretted that the incessant mass attacks on innocent citizens in the country has turned indigenes to internally displaced persons in their own ancestral lands.

He added that the government was appearing helpless, inactive and unperturbed in solving the menace.

Ume lamented that the constant murdering of villagers and occupation of their father-land without decisive repulsion by the government is “beginning to paint a dirty colour of condonation of the activities of these foreign marauders”.

He said: “It is shocking that Nigerian citizens including mainly the rural dwellers in their natural interior villages would always be subjected to these murderous escapades on a daily basis and nothing happens to the murderers.

“The constitutional duties of the military is to ward off armed invasion of any part and territory of Nigeria while the Police and the para-militaries are to ensure that public law and order are ensured in the country. How come these foreign mercenaries are having unfettered field days in our Country?

“On a good day no government can condone insecurity of its citizens and its territories. The ongoing ugly developments in Nigeria are therefore baffling, puzzling and appear to contain more than what the eye is seeing.”

The affected communities in the recent killings in Ebonyi state were Nkalaha, Egedege, Obegu and Amazu communities.

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