Security
By Kennedy Nnamani
A civil society organization, Intersociety has alleged that the military and other security forces are aiding and abetting the genocidal activities of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in the South-East zone of the country.
The group, which made this allegation on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen, noted that the security forces and their principal officers deployed in the Southeast are assisting in the jihadist incursion into the region’s forests, bushes and farmlands.
The statement, signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, board chair and other executives of the group disclosed that “It is no longer new to observe that the only operational mandate of the deployed security forces and their commanders in the East is to “murderously go after those involved in “Biafra Matters” including the unarmed and the uninvolved.”
According to the group, a former Army Chief of Northern Muslim extraction had in 2021 charged soldiers “to take war to South-East villages and communities where soldiers are attacked or killed”. Since then, hell has been let loose on defenseless Easterners/South-Easterners and their properties, while same military turn total blind eyes on genocidal activities of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in the East; cuddling and breast-feeding them.
The group further noted that “the ongoing conquest and annihilative invasion and attack of Enugu by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen are coming barely 10 days after our detailed and facts laden special report on military siege and terror in the East.”
Intersociety added that it had incontrovertibly disclosed in the special report that pieces of evidence abound showing that military operations in the East since 2016 under the present political dispensation had aided Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen incursions into Eastern Christian forests, bushes and farmlands and brought about unchecked massacre of defenseless citizens and their properties in their thousands.
“Such military operations have also been layered in the cloak of brigandage, ethnic profiling, brazen partisanship, crudity, class criminalization and stigmatization, hate soldiering and mass murders and ‘industrial scale’ violence against properties as well as other internationally prohibited acts or conducts,” it added.
Others who signed the statement include Obianuju Joy Igboeli Esquire; Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Program, Chidinma Udegbunam Esquire, Head, Campaign and Publicity Department.
Below are the names of the officers in question:
Maj-Gen Aminu Chinade, GOC, 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Maj-Gen Umar Musa, GOC 82 Division, Enugu, Brig -Gen Sani Suleiman, 34 Brigade Commander, Obinze, Brig-Gen Adegoke Adetuyi, 14 Brigade Commander, Ohafia, Brig -Gen Abubakar Wase, Brig Commander, 2 Brigade, Uyo, Brig Gen Danlami Ndahi, Brig Commander, 4 Brigade, Benin, Col M.B. Abubakar, Commander, 302 Artillery, Onitsha, Air Vice Marshal Ibikunle Daramola, Air Officer Commanding Ground Tactical Command, Enugu, Rear Admiral Ibrahim Dewu, Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Naval Command, Calabar; AIG Kamaldeen Kola Okunlola, Police AIG in charge of Zone 6 Calabar, AIG Abutu Yaro, AIG in charge of Zone 13 Awka, AIG Lawan Jimeta, AIG in charge of Zone 5 Benin, AIG I. Akinmoyede, AIG in charge of Zone 9 Umuahia, CP Mustapha Bala Mohammed, Commissioner of Police, Abia State, CP Ahmed Ammani, Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, CP Muhammed Ali, Commissioner of Police, Delta State, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, Commissioner of Police, Imo State, CP Aliyu Garba, Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State, CP Sule Balarabe, Commissioner of Police, Cross River State, CP Olatoye Durosinmi, Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State and CP Mohammed Adamu Dankwara, Commissioner of Police, Edo State. Such overhauls must also be extended to headships of Spy Police formations in the eleven States as well as principal officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force bases, artilleries, battalions and engineering regiments in Warri, Ogoja, Abakaliki, Enugu, Elele, Ogbaru, Owerre-Nta, Asa and Aba.
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