Intersociety alerts 950 South East locations overrun with the connivance of Governors
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“Some of them came to occupy the areas through the involvement and conspiracy of community leaders and state governments that issued them with a certificate of occupancy with the alleged promises of ‘electoral victory and post-election court victory’.
“It is also our finding that all the governors in the zone are involved in the conspiracy, aiding them to have access to the land.
“This is widely believed to be the reason they don’t speak out or rise in strong condemnation of the genocidal jihadist activities of the Fulani herdsmen and others in the region.
“They have also bluntly refused and failed to act or act as Chief Security Officers of their respective states” – Umeagbalasi, Intersociety Chair.
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Some 950 locations, especially forests, across South East communities are cornered up by destructive herdsmen, terrorists, and kidnappers, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has sounded the alert.
Intersociety said its investigation shows that criminals operate from these 950 locations to kidnap, kill, and maim people and its investigation shows that the locations are spread over 800 communities in the zone.
About 40 per cent of the entire 1,940 communities in the South East are under grave terrorist and herdsmen threats, said Intersociety Chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi, who released the report of the investigation.
He blamed South East Governors for not properly policing their states, accusing them of aiding herdsmen to acquire land.
“By our research and investigative, the region is currently dotted with 1,940 Igbo communities, involving Abia State 771, Imo 700, Enugu 190, Anambra State 183 and Ebonyi State 96, all compressed in 29,525 square kilometres of landmass, approximately three times lower than the landmass of Niger State, a North Central zone, which has a land mass of 76,363 square kilometres,” Umeagbalasi stressed.
“Some of them came to occupy the areas through the involvement and conspiracy of community leaders and state governments that issued them with a certificate of occupancy with the alleged promises of ‘electoral victory and post-election court victory’.
“It is also our finding that all the governors in the zone are involved in the conspiracy, aiding them to have access to the land.
“This is widely believed to be the reason they don’t speak out or rise in strong condemnation of the genocidal jihadist activities of the Fulani herdsmen and others in the region.
“They have also bluntly refused and failed to act or act as Chief Security Officers of their respective states.
“It is not as if the South East governors are not aware of the inherent grave dangers in leasing and mortgaging the territory to them; they are fully aware and also not blind to the goings-on in places like Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, and other areas.”
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