The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has accused Nigerian security personnel of stripping nude and manhandling Igbo women who came to the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday to demonstrate their support for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The organization demands that security authorities apologize for the alleged attack.
It called the security personnel’s acts sacrilegious and said they reeked of hate for the Igbo people.
Security agents, the youngsters claim, are watching them and doing nothing while Igbo people and businesses are being targeted across the country.
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The group in a statement signed by its National President, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, titled: “Nnamdi Kanu’s Case: Security Agents Assaults Igbo Women, Hit Them With AK-47 Rifle Weapons- Ohanaeze Youth”, accused the security agencies of being behind the crisis in South-East to destroy the region.
He regretted that the country is fast becoming a ‘banana republic’ where the dignity of human life is easily reduced to nothing while violation of human rights is the order of the day in the hands of security operatives.
He said, “The Igbo women and mothers who stood about one kilometre away from the Federal High Court, close to Blue Springs Hotel, Abuja became objects of security brutality when the troops of Nigerian security agents sprayed tear gas on the aged mothers, marched the women on the ground while hitting them with guns and left them with bruises because they were Igbo.
“In the process, some of the women were stripped naked by security men. This is completely unacceptable; a taboo to womanhood and a slap at the dignity of Nigerian women. This adds to the series of anti-social reasons why Nigeria is counted among the unsafe places to live in the world.
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“The behaviour of security personnel on Igbo women today is a challenge to women groups, the National Assembly and the global community. People have a right to movement and association, but the case of Nigeria is fast becoming different.
“Nigeria is drifting into a state of lawlessness where fundamental human rights are serially abused, especially by security agents and this truism accounts for why Nigeria is leading in abuse of human rights violation globally.”
The Youth group, on the other hand, called for Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the whole global human rights community to focus their attention on the heinous events in Nigeria, particularly the continuous killings in the South-East.
Intimidation, marginalization, unfairness, and human rights violations against Ndigbo were identified as some of the causes that contributed to the drive for independence by the community.
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It claimed that rather than addressing the situation, Nigeria’s leadership has exacerbated it and brought the country to the brink of collapse.
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