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HURIWA tasks Gov Umahi on resolving Southeast unknown gunmen mystery

By Bertram Nwannekanma
24 May 2022   |   4:04 am
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), yesterday, charged Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi, to volunteer information that could lead to the unraveling of the faces behind the killings in the South East.

Umahi. Photo; TWITTER/EBONYIGOV

Gives him 74 hours to talk or remain irrelevant
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), yesterday, charged Ebonyi State governor,  Dave Umahi,  to volunteer information that could lead to the unravelling of the faces behind the killings in the South East.

The group, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko,  urged elected political leaders of the South-East zone in the National Assembly,  governors and traditional leaders of all Igbo speaking states to prevail on Umahi to do so since he has already identified the ethnicity of the unknown gunmen.

According to HURIWA, Igbo people must demand this information in greater detail urgently.

The group recalled that Governor Umahi had reportedly said that the unknown gunmen, terrorising southeastern Nigeria and killing people, are those who hail from the region and not outsiders.

Answering questions regarding the identities of the killers on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Umahi said the atrocities committed in the region were largely carried out by youths from there.

He said, “People tend to be funny at times when they say that we have been invaded by outsiders, but it is not true.

“We have people from other regions that are in the Southeast. There’s no tribe that doesn’t have criminality. I wouldn’t say some of these people from other tribes don’t engage in criminality.

“What I call bandits are people that engage in violence; and they are our people, South-East people. The youths, some of them are in this category.

“So, when people say insecurity in the Southeast is being imported, I do not buy that. Because I am a Governor, I do security reports. We have arrested a number of these people, and it should be that they are about five or 14 per cent of those outside the Southeast. If we have 90 per cent of our youths engaging in these things, you cannot say the Southeast is being infiltrated.”

HURIWA, however, said rather than engaging in media showmanship in a matter as sensitive as the terrorists destroying the Southeast of Nigeria,  the Ebonyi State governor should  disclosed those unknown gunmen, he has now revealed their ethnicity within 74 hours or be taken as a joker.

“Umahi should be challenged by all Igbo people to meet with the National Security Adviser, the Director General  of Department of State Services (DSS), the Chief of Army Staff and the Inspector General of Police, together with the governors of the  Southeast region and civil society leaders of south east extraction so the governor can do the Southeast the favour of full disclosure of those unknown gunmen he has now revealed,” the  group added.

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