The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, warned on Thursday that the Simon Ekpa group is a new bandit terrorizing the Southeast region and that they must be cleaned out, especially as the 2023 general election approaches.
Umahi stated this while speaking to stakeholders and APC party members at the Elders/Widows Party, which was held at the Ecumenical Centre in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State.
The governor stated that Ebonyi State cannot be a part of Biafra and regretted the region’s ongoing killings and devastation of lives and property.
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According to him: “When this agitation for Biafra started, I told them that this matter will go beyond Nnamdi Kanu. And today, it has gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. Every criminal says he is IPOB. Every criminal says he is ESN.
“Now, we have another bandit they call Simon Ekpa. Is this the Biafra we desired? To be killing ourselves and displacing others. That’s why we said in the heat of that crisis that Ebonyi State can never be part of Biafra. We are not Biafra.
“If Biafra is to be killing ourselves, to go to the market and start shooting people that have done nothing, to be declaring sit-at-home in our homeland and destroying the economy, for what reason? These things are strange to our culture.
“We have phones, and we call our people to call us on phone and tell us where these people are. The Police and Ebubeagu security outfit are on ground. I warn politicians who use these boys. They are the ones that go to court to sue Ebubeagu. They go to national television to condemn Ebubeagu.
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“They have killed a lot of Ebubeagu people who are trying to protect our people. I ask all the local government people to give us information because we are ready to enter into the forest to flush out these bandits,” he stated.
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