ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- An Igbo group under the auspices of Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), has called on the South-East Governors to disband Ebubeagu security outfit in their states.
The Igbo group alleged that the Ebubeagu members were committing extrajudicial killings.
It noted also that the objective of its establishment to checkmate activities of criminals in the region had failed.
The forum, therefore, called on the international community and rights organisations to investigate cases of extra-judicial killings of unarmed and innocent civilians in the region.
Spokesperson for the forum, Udemadu Chika Udemadu, in a statement on Monday, decried what he described as reckless waste of human lives by Ebubeagu, especially in Imo and Ebonyi states.
“Such waste of hunan lives by the security outfits of the same people they ought to protect has defeated the objective of setting it up,” the group said.
He condemned the brutal killing of a trader at Affor Ogidi Market known as Pastor, on the phantom allegation of inscribing tattoo on the body.
He warned that incessant, unwarranted and extra-judicial killings of innocent and unarmed Igbo youths in the South-East zone, must stop.
The group also condemned the spate of kidnappings for ransom in the region, lamenting that killings and kidnappings of innocent people have had dire consequences on the economy of the South-East.
The Igbo forum called on the National Hunan Rights Commission (NHRC) and other international human rights organisations, such as Hunan Rights Watch and Amnesty International, United States (US), United Kingdom, Canada, European Commission (EU), among others, to investigate the killings and kidnappings in the South-East.
The group, however, commended the security outfit set up by the Anambra State Government, Anambra State Vigilante Services (AVS) led by renowned security expert, Commander Igwe and his operation, Commander Chinenye Okpomkpi, for their respect for human rights.