By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
President Muhammdu Buhari has come under fire for the deployment of Nigeria’s military airpower against Orlu where the government believes the operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) are massing.
The ESN is the security outfit of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a group that has been agitating for the self-determination of the South East region.
For many Nigerians, it was ironic that the federal government is appeasing the bandits in the north who terrorize communities and abduct schoolchildren but chose to rain bombs on the ESN which poses little to no threat to Nigeria’s national security.
Activist, Aisha Yesufu, said the government was having its priority wrong.
She tweeted via her Twitter handle @AishaYesufu: “Instead of the Nigerian military to pursue the terrorists that abducted schoolchildren in Niger State they are unleashing terror in Orlu like the terrorists did in Kagara?”
Social media influencer and former social media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri also said via his Twitter handle @renoomokri: “Watch As @MBuhari Rains Terror On Orlu, and Rains Amnesty on Bandits. Has The Nigerian Civil War Ended?”
Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, also tweeting @YeleSowore said: “The tale of two countries: In Orlu, Imo state, the @MBuhari junta is suddenly alive killing civilians, aerially bombarding #ESN members but ironically in #Kagara, Niger state where bandits abducted schoolboys, negotiators are peacefully negotiating ransom!”
Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, also tweeting @@realFFK said: “The bombing and killing of innocent men, women and children in Orlu, Anambra state by soldiers of the Nigerian Army is totally and completely unacceptable and I wholeheartedly condemn it. Shedding innocent blood is not the way forward and I call on the Nigerian Army to show restraint.”
