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The nationalist president of Orluzurumee Youth Assembly (OYA), Prince Izunna Obiefule, has accused the Imo State government-sponsored vigilante outfit, Ebubeagu Security Network, of extra-judicial killing, maiming, unlawful arrest, and detention of guiltless youths successful Orlu, Orsu, Oru West, Oru East and different parts of Imo State.
According to him, portion the atrocities were being meted retired connected hapless guiltless villagers, government, and information agencies were mum astir specified activities, saying the section vigilante was doing the occupation of the constabulary and judiciary wrong Orlu zone.
Obiefule made the disclosure portion speaking during a study presumption and run launch, tagged “A Decade Of Impunity, Attacks And Unlawful Killings In South East Nigeria”, by Amnesty International successful Enugu connected Tuesday.
He called connected the authorities to caution the vigilante operatives to halt being reckless and hostile to the villages, adding that specified illicit assemblage policing was precise inimical to the porous insecurity concern successful the state.
Further, helium called connected authorities to adequately equip information agencies to alteration them combat transgression and insecurity to a standstill, truthful arsenic to reconstruct security, bid and comfortableness successful Imo State, peculiarly successful Orlu senatorial zone.
OYA opined that capable warring equipment, gadgets and operational vehicles volition fortify information agencies to beryllium proactive successful warring criminals who besides usage blase arms and ammunition to unleash mayhem connected the radical particularly those who are helpless.
Obiefule nevertheless regretted that authorities and the information agents were not doing capable to curtail crime, unit and sidesplitting successful Imo State peculiarly successful Orlu zone, different insecurity could not person lingered.
While helium frowned astatine the unlawful arrest, agelong detention, imprisonment, maiming and sidesplitting of law-abiding citizens, Obiefule called connected authorities to punish immoderate information agent, whether Police, Army oregon Vigilante who operated contrary to the instrumentality in carrying retired information duties.
He said, “Orlu senatorial portion is the worst deed of the insecurity concern successful Imo State. The Police and the judiciary should emergence and caution the excesses of immoderate information agents including the vigilante outfits. It is simply a happening retired of spot that law-abiding youths are being dehumanized and killed connected regular ground successful Orlu, Orsu, Oru West and Oru East especially.
“Security agents should beryllium nonrecreational successful dealing with the insecurity concern truthful that guiltless radical and their spot would not beryllium destroyed arsenic violations of quality rights successful South East person grown beyond control”, helium said.
Further, helium listed greed, corruption, selfishness, wickedness by authorities officials arsenic the large origin of insecurity successful the region, adding that bully governance and younker empowerment tin incorporate and curtail transgression and unit if they are prioritized.
Obiefule said, “For crime, unit and insecurity to trim oregon beryllium eliminated wholly in South East, authorities officials should shun greed, corruption, selfishness and marginalization and clasp bully governance, purposeful enactment arsenic obtained successful a antiauthoritarian setting.
“OYA, arsenic the apex and umbrella younker assemblage of Orlu senatorial district, is calling connected information forces to amended successful securing law-abiding citizens.
“Government should adequately equip information apparatuses with modern weapons, gadgets to beryllium capable to combat insecurity. Youth should shun transgression and unit – organ harvesting, kidnapping, equipped robbery, cultism, banditry, coercion and clasp hard enactment to go useful”, Obiefule said.
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