Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), has advocated the need for stoppage of killings and unprecedented orgy of violence turning the South-East geopolitical zone in to bloody battlefields.
It also implored the federal government to instantly cut off diplomatic ties with Finland and expel the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria to compel the arrest Finland-based agitator, Simon Ekpa, who has been instigating sit-at-home, violence and killings in the South-East through destructive commands and orders to his foot soldiers from faraway Finland.
HURIWA, in a statement on Wednesday,by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the new service chiefs should get to work immediately and prioritise solution to the insecurity in the zone.
He also urged President Bola Tinubu to obey the rule of law and democratic principles by asking the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Ministry of Justice as well as the Department of State Services to obey an Appeal Court judgement that discharged the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
He said hundreds of innocent residents have been killed in the South-East by gunmen and security operatives, especially in the last two years since the incarceration of Kanu mid-2021.
He added that the huge economic loss and irrecoverable loss of lives are painful and have had devastating effects on the overall South-East geopolitical zone.
HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “The sit-at-home order and violence that has persisted in South East are alarming. The Federal Government should cut off diplomatic ties with its Finnish counterpart and expel the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria over their failure to arrest and prosecute Simon Ekpa who is allegedly causing violence in the South-East by issuing illegal orders for persistent sit-at-home and the attendant violent enforcement of these illegal orders.
