South-East: Leader Of Igbo Elders Council Slams Security Agencies Over Indiscriminate Killing Of Igbo Youths

Security agencies in Nigeria have been accused of indiscriminately killing Igbo youths in the South-East.

The allegation was made by the Igbo Elders Council (IEC).

The council alleged that the security agencies were killing youths in the guise of fighting members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its security network, Eastern Security Network (ESN).

Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, June 11, the chairman of the group and a former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, alleged that dozens of young people, mostly male, are being extrajudicially executed on a daily basis by security operatives in the region.

He said: “We condemn without any reservation the destruction of public properties in the South-East, because it is not in our character to indulge in arson, brigandage. We believe however that it is not fair and just to use a sledge hammer to kill harmless flies. Security agencies now indiscriminately invade private homes at odd hours, in the same guise of fishing out presumed IPOB and ESN members. They arrest men and sometimes shoot innocent and hapless youths. We therefore call on President Muhamamdu Buhari, the United Nations, the European Union, African Union, ECOWAS, to take urgent and necessary action to stop the current genocide against the Igbos in the South-East and parts of the South-South.” Ezeife said