Security
By Kennedy Nnamani
IFEANYI Ejiofor, one of the counsels of Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the Lagos State government to act and end the killing, ethnic profiling and destruction of properties belonging to the Igbo people in the state before, during and after the general elections.
In a statement made available to Realnews, on Tuesday, March 28, Ejiofor condemned the persistent attacks and killing of Igbos in Lagos State, saying that “enough is enough”.
“We can no longer continue to remain calm in the face of the ongoing unprovoked attacks and senseless killing of Igbos still going on in Lagos state, while hoping that the situation is under control,” he said.
Ejiofor also narrated a recent incident of attack on Igbos in the Ojo axis of Lagos state.
He said: “I was awoken in the middle of the night by a distress call from my kinsman on the secret lynching of Igbos in the Ojo axis of Lagos state still ongoing. My kinsman, who narrowly escaped being lynched by the attackers, was gasping for breath during his distress telephone call.”
He lamented that those who perpetrate these gruesome killings have not been brought to justice.
“It was reasonably expected that by now, the government of Lagos state would have called these charlatan non-state actors to order.
“Unfortunately, it is appalling that the chief mastermind of this ethnic baiting in the person of MC Olumo, is still seen walking on the streets of Lagos state, a free person, while innocent persons are being daily paraded by the Lagos state police command,” he said.
Ejiofor also decried that human rights activists in the state have not publicly condemned the ethnic profiling and lynching of the southeastern people peacefully living and doing their genuine businesses in Lagos.
According to him, it is bizarre that “today, all known activists and renowned human rights lawyers in Lagos state have suddenly gone mute, except for insignificant few”.
“This is totally disappointing and sad that the lives of some group of persons no longer matter in an enforced contraption, and all government actors and agencies go about their normal businesses,” he said.
He therefore call on Lagos State government to immediately intervene so as to avoid a looming total breakdown of law and order in the state.
“We are calling on the Lagos state government’s intervention to immediately quench this fire that the non-state actors ignited before, during and after their shambolic elections, before it degenerates into a sorry state.
“We can no longer sit and watch our illustrious sons and daughters being lynched and their properties/hard labour over the years being destroyed and/or taken over by soulless criminals,” he added.
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