*Seeks approval for adults in Igbo land to carry AK-47 rifles
Civil rights Advocacy Group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has stated that the sudden upsurge in the bloody attacks of communities in Enugu South-East Nigeria, is a declaration of war in Igboland.
The group also said “the symbolism of attacking Enugu, the political regional headquarters of Igboland of a sudden, and in staccato format, is a strategic message by armed Fulani terrorists to Ndigbo, signalling the beginning of a full blown war, which must be confronted by all South Eastern religious, traditional and political leaders.
HURIWA condemned the refusal of the heads of all the security formations in Enugu to arrest the perpetrators of these incessant and well coordinated violent war directed at the people of Ebor, Eha-Amufu community in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, which it said, “was for the umpteenth time hit massively on Sunday by the same armed marauding Fulani bandits probably commissioned by Miyetti Allah cattle sellers association in association with Fulani elements working deep inside of the Federal government headed by a Fulani, President Muhammadu Buhari.
HURUWA quoting security sources stated that the invaders who outnumbered the soldiers and local vigilantes, launched the vicious attack on early Sunday morning, adding that several people were killed, according to Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, National Coordinator of HURIWA.
“As I speak to you, we are combing bushes in search of the bodies of those killed. I can’t tell now the exact number of people killed.
“From the report we received, the armed herdsmen and their collaborators from Benue State communities launched the attack around 5:30 am to 6 am this Sunday morning. Before we got there, several people have been killed. “We are just a few soldiers here and where we are based is a little bit far from the community.
“There are no other security operatives from other security agencies here in Eha-Amufu helping except the local vigilantes.
“They (vigilantes), first engaged them but the invading armed herdsmen outnumbered them,” a security source said.
Also the rights group quoting the media, stated that a community leader, who gave his name as Ogbuabor Samuel, confirmed the attack and blamed security agencies for the killings.
Onwubiko lamented that the previous attack on Ebor and Umujiovu communities on December 8, 2022, claimed 25 lives, adding that “the Enugu State Police Command told the media that only four people were killed”.
He added: “HURIWA condemns this attack as despicable, reprehensible, and totally primitive just as the Rights group has repeated her call on the Chief of Army Staff to dismiss the General Officer Commanding 82 division of the Army in Enugu Major General Umar Musa for apparently not doing enough to stave off these attacks because the attackers now having upper hands and getting active support and weapons from powerful forces in Abuja are from the same Fulani Ethnicity just as the HURIWA said the continuous terror and mass murders in Enugu are taking place successfully because the security agencies are compromised and are working in cohort with the terrorists.
“We are appealing to World leaders and Igbos in diaspora to use their extensive contacts to expose the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for standing by and do nothing whilst terrorists sharing same Ethnicity with him and wreaking havoc and unleashing massive deaths of Innocent Igbo people in their ancestral homes. “HURIWA alternatively is demanding that every adult without blemish or without any criminal case should be allowed to bear AK-47 to wade off these terrorists and their daredevil agenda since Government at the centre that controls the military and police seems to have compromised the security and wellbeing of Igbo people.”
