The recent gruesome murder of about seventeen Northerners in Uromi community, Edo State calls for the meticulous security attention of the government to ensure escalation, mindless and unfounded reprisal attacks against innocent citizens are being surmounted. Leadership short of committed and unalloyed security intelligence may lead to unavoidable threats to life and national unity.
As a concerned Nigerian with zero tolerance for anything prone to orchestrating ethnic crisis and heating up the polity, I vehemently condemn the brutal massacre of fellow Nigerians in Uromi Community and urge the federal government to quickly wade in the threatening and escalating situation to enable the victims get justice. It is quite unfair that lives were lost in numbers and till now, nothing holistically meaningful has been done to attract national security reform capable of nipping further recurrence of such a horrible situation in the bud.
In the same vein, it is regrettably callous, wicked, and an act of unjustifiably transferred retaliation for a young man of Igbo extraction (One-Chukwudi) who was biasedly killed today on France road, Kano State in misplacement and transfer of anger against the Uromi killing that wasn’t the cause of Ndigbo. The slain young man tearfully left his wife helpless, and the angry mob descended on him in reprisal against a killing that took place at a distance from Edo State, which shares no defined cultural affinity with the people of the southeast. The government at the center is seriously advised to take bold steps toward addressing this situation before it culminates into unnecessary socio-political-ethnic turmoil.
In all, Igbos has been an ethnic nationality with a common interest in upholding the unity and advancement of this Country, and any act misguidedly taken to undermine her freedom, especially in circumstances where she didn’t create scenes of uprising, would not be tolerated. It boggles my mind how the government continues spearheading manipulative, coercive, and frivolous acts of political violence for her selfish gains in the face of extreme insecurity, poverty, skyrocketing cost of living, and harsh economic meltdown.
Finally, it is recklessly abnormal to shift blame or unjustly attack innocent citizens on issues the government should be absolutely held responsible for. The failure and weakness of the nation’s security architectures majorly contribute to the records of incessant crimes in the polity, and the people of the Igbo nation neither masterminded the Uromi killings nor had any control of the old mid-western region territory to warrant their unprovoked attack in Kano State.
Chief Dr. Emeka Kalu.
Director General, Global Initiatives For Good Governance.
