ABIA State Elders Consultative Forum has urged the Federal Government to rescind the shoot-on-sight order given to security men against Ndigbo.
In a communique issued after an emergency meeting in Umuahia, the elders said, “The Presidency should immediately rescind such divisive and inciting orders to shoot Igbo youths protesters on sight, and the evil-motivated postings of the core Muslim military commanders to the South-East without further delay.
“That youths arrested should henceforth, be charged and given a fair trial at the court of competent jurisdiction, while others who met their untimely death through this gruesome assassination and extra-judicial killings should be accounted for, and the perpetrators punished in line with the constitution of the country.
“Igbo youths and men are erroneously arrested and labelled IPOB members without a fair hearing and killed like chicken without trial in a competent court of law.
“A case in point is Mazi Eze Awurum arrested in Aba. Worse still is the assassination of innocent lady, Miss Uchechi Eyioma at Obigbo after tagging her IPOB members.”
Some members of the Abia elders forum include former Finance Minister, Kalu Idika Kalu; former Military Administrator of Cross River State, Navy Capt. Chris Osondu (retd); Professor Joshua Ogbonnaya; Arch Bishop Moses Ufomba; former Commissioner for Environment, Chukwuemeka Osuwa; and Chief Isaac Ogbonna.
