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Arrest Imo’s Ebubeagu Operatives Now – Group Demands

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Following reports of the Ebubeagu security outfit’s operations in various Imo State towns, youths affiliated with the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders have demanded their arrest, calling their conduct “wicked and savage.”

While criticising the security forces’ overzealousness, the youth group expressed unhappiness with the use of jungle justice on suspects.

“We are not in the stone age where anyone or anyone will rise up one morning, accuse someone of being a criminal, and kill the said person,” COSEYL President General Goodluck Ibem said in a statement made available to newsmen in Owerri on Tuesday.

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“We live in the twenty-first century, and the rule of law and the constitution protect individuals and government actions in terms of governance.”
It is completely wrong for Ebubeagu security officers to wake up and begin murdering Igbo youngsters under any pretence.

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“The majority of the houses in the afflicted settlements have been burned down and destroyed, while the few people who managed to avoid being killed have fled, leaving the areas desolate and devoid of people or animals. Those settlements are now ghost towns with no one living in them.

“One of the disturbing incidences in the community was a situation where a woman received matchets cuts in her head, hand and other parts of her body because of her inability to provide her husband or tell the Ebubeagu operatives where her husband went to.

“This is unbecoming of a sane society. Ndi-Imo and Ndi-Igbo must rise and condemn in its entirety this despicable act by these so-called Ebubeagu security operatives.

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“The courts remain the last arbiter and no one has the constitutional right or powers to take the life of another man at will. If anyone is arrested on suspicion of being a criminal, he or she should be taken to court for the court to try such persons involved. It is unlawful and a criminal act to torture, maim or kill anyone on the premise of being a criminal.

“Houses and properties that were destroyed in those Communities, which court gave such orders? These operatives just assumed the duties of the courts and went ahead to destroy peoples homes and assets without recourse to the law of the land. Too sad.”

“We warn those Ebubeagu security operatives to stop forthwith the extrajudicial killings now and we demand that those found waiting or culpable of extrajudicial killings in Imo State should be made to face the music. Enough said,” Ibem stated.

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