HURIWA urges fairness, probe in Enugu land dispute

…Warns against usage of wood guards successful civilian matters

By Chioma Obinna

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the Nigeria Police Force and different applicable authorities to guarantee fairness, transparency, and respect for quality rights successful the ongoing probe of a onshore quality successful Etiti Ngwo, Enugu State.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights radical called for the substance to beryllium handled strictly successful enactment with owed process and the regularisation of law.

Onwubiko said HURIWA had received a petition related to a disputed onshore transaction successful the Etiti Ngwo community. He emphasized that the organization’s main interest was ensuring that quality rights are protected and that instrumentality enforcement agencies enactment impartially.

“We telephone connected each parties progressive to debar the dispersed of unverified accusation astir the lawsuit and let the constabulary to reason their probe without interference,” Onwubiko stated.

He besides commended the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) for banning constabulary engagement successful land-related disputes, describing the directive arsenic “a commendable measurement toward curbing abuses of bureau and restoring nationalist trust.”

HURIWA expressed interest implicit reports suggesting that immoderate officials successful Enugu State mightiness beryllium considering the usage of wood guards to intervene successful ongoing onshore disputes successful parts of the state, including Obeagu and Etiti Ngwo communities.

“It would beryllium contrary to owed process for immoderate authorities bureau oregon information outfit to instrumentality sides successful civilian disputes, particularly wherever tribunal proceedings are ongoing,” Onwubiko cautioned.

He called connected Governor Peter Mbah to guarantee that nary authorities information outfit is deployed for onshore enforcement oregon civilian matters, emphasizing that each authorities enactment indispensable beryllium guided by the regularisation of law.

The radical besides referenced petitions from residents of Obeagu Awkunanaw, who alleged renewed disputes implicit ancestral land, urging authorities to probe the claims and support peace.

Referring to the July 2025 incidental astatine Etiti Ngwo, which reportedly resulted successful the decease of a youth, HURIWA urged investigators to stay nonsubjective and thorough, insisting that justness indispensable beryllium pursued lawfully.

“The sanctity of quality beingness and the regularisation of instrumentality indispensable beryllium upheld astatine each times,” the connection read.

HURIWA further appealed to assemblage leaders, authorities officials, and instrumentality enforcement agencies to prioritize dialog and ineligible channels successful resolving onshore disputes alternatively than resorting to unit oregon nationalist confrontation.

The station HURIWA urges fairness, probe successful Enugu onshore dispute appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.