A human and pro-democracy group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has raised alarm over the massive deployment of soldiers and other security personnel to South East and South-South geo-political zones to contain the sit-at –home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB)
In a statement made available to the media in Onitsha, Anambra state yesterday the Intersociety said the massive deployment was a disguise to massacre the people from these two zones.
The group in the statement signed by the chairman, Board of Trustees, (BOT), Intersociety, Nze Emeka Umeagbalasi, said this deployment was an attempt to repeat the mindless massacre of innocent citizens at Nkpor , a suburb of Onitsha on May30, 2016, in which about 110 were killed and buried in 15 mass graves inside Onitsha Military Cantonment.
The group also alleged that their members and other eye witnesses noticed deployment of soldiers in various cities in the South East and South South zones such as Onitsha, Enugu, Nnewi, Asaba, Okigwe Owerri, Abakiliki,Portharcourt among many other cities
“Before now, there had been frightening number of military check- points mounted along major Federal and State roads and other strategic junctions and intersections in the South East. Most of these soldiers are of Northern Muslim extractions with entrenched culture of ethnic bias and hatred” the group said”
Intersociety however said that the disposition of the Federal Government to deploy troops had aided the Sit-At-Home as they have created unnecessary panic,that may result in another mass murder of innocent persons and turn back to label them “violent/armed IPOB or MASSOB members”.
“It is therefore too risky and death-prone for road users, including traders, civil servants, school children, artisans, Okada, keke riders and commercial bus drivers to leave their homes in the South East and South South. This because they can get killed individually or in group by soldiers and their bodies taking away and buried in mass graves” Intersociety warned.
The group advised that to avoid being massacred the blood-thirsty security agents, while going on their legitimate businesses, they should stay off the road.
