By Gladys Ekwu
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, a big time research and investigative rights group in Onitsha, Anambra state, has on Monday May 31, 2021 released a report of how the Nigerian security system engaged in indiscriminate killings in the South East region.
The number of such incidents of about 170 is blood-cuddling as the group in the report signed by three of their leaders noted that it is “in possession of graphic details of how soldiers, police and other Nigerian security operatives presently deployed in the East madly, wildly, hatefully and falsely label and abduct innocent citizens especially the citizens of Igbo ethnic nationality and Christian faith and spill their bloods for gallantry.”
The human rights group said that the ugly development has led to not less than 170 open killings, secret abductions and permanent disappearance or feared unlawful execution in custody of no fewer than 550 and general arrest or abduction of not less than 2100.
According to the group’s report, “We have received over 100 phone calls and messages from members of the public testifying in favour of the abducted and slain citizens.
“The intersociety hereby calls on the Nigeria police force and Nigerian Army to immediately and unconditionally release all the citizens in their custody and desist from perpetration and perpetuation of such dastardly acts including frame-ups and trumped up allegations or charges, spilling of innocent blood as a mark of gallantry, abductions and disappearances, extra-judicial killings and other related cases.”
