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Akunyili: Igbo Conscience Group Asks FG To Declare State Of Emergency In South-East

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Igbo Conscience Group

The Igbo Conscience (TIC) has requested the federal authorities to declare a state of emergency within the south-east.

In an announcement, the group lamented the killing of Chike Akunyili, saying Igbo residents are being killed of their numbers whereas companies are being destroyed.

The group alleged that regardless of asking the Igbo to talk in opposition to the menace, most of them have continued to draw back from condemning “this self-destructive dastardly act”.

The group additionally accused non secular leaders of being “lively individuals within the atrocity that has overwhelmed Igboland” as an alternative of being brokers of peace.

“That is only a tip of what’s occurring within the 5 South Jap States presently and it has been a recurrent image for the reason that outlawed Indigenous Folks of Biafra launched an armed warfare in opposition to the area,” the group mentioned.

“Right this moment, the South East is beneath a murderous and detractive siege launched by its individuals within the title of actualising Biafra.

“TIC notes that when this inclination to homicide began in Igboland, many Igbos lent their assist, covertly and overtly, to this evil. We word that when the federal government moved in to cease this evil, these Igbos began a destructive marketing campaign in opposition to the federal authorities effort, terming it as genocide in opposition to Igbos.

“TIC notes additionally that given their complicity and lively assist in grooming the lethal monster ravaging Igboland right this moment, many of the governors within the South East have waxed impotent in rising to the problem of coping with this lethal monster.

“There appears to be no treatment in sight because the individuals have surrendered to the beastialiity of murderous gunmen which have taken over Igboland right this moment, killing as they need and unleashing mayhem, worry and destruction throughout Igboland.

“Given these considerations, due to this fact, we demand the next; That the Federal Authorities take into account the choice of declaring a state of emergency within the South East or no less than some states of the South East to arrest this harmful state of anarchy.

“That the Federal Authorities draft extra safety forces and companies to the South East to save lots of the individuals from themselves.

“That the Federal Authorities establish, arrest, prosecute any individual, group, curiosity and organisation discovered to actively procure, assist and facilitate the state of anarchy presently riddling the South East.”

The group expressed hope that the federal authorities will attend to its calls for earlier than the area goes into extinction.