By Onyebuchi Ezigbo
Nzuko Umuna, an Igbo think tank, has said that the country is witnessing worsening insecurity due to injustice, inequalities and lack of good governance.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja,, chairman of the legal committee of the Think- tank, Mr. Sam Amadi, said that unfair and unequal treatment of citizens had helped to compound the insecurity crisis.
Amadi lamented that the South-East that used to be the “safest region in Nigeria” had now become “a theatre of organised criminality.”
“Nzuko Umuna recognizes that Nigeria has descended into a depth of insecurity partly because of the failure of governance across the country and particularly because of inequities and injustices of political leadership in Nigeria,” the former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said.
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1. President Muhammadu Buhari has okayed recommendations that would address the conflicts of herders and farmers in a sustained and lasting manner. His spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement yesterday, said Buhari approved a number of specific measures to bring a permanent end to the frequent crisis.
2. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA, has disclosed that over 2.353 million Nigerians were displaced by bandits and natural disasters like flooding, building collapse and fire outbreaks in 2020. NEMA’s Director-General, Mohammadu Mohammed stated this, yesterday, in Abuja.
3. Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, yesterday, met with the Ambassador-Designate of the People’s Republic of China to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, to fine-tune ways to deepen relations between China and Nigeria. Speaking while playing host to Ambassador Jianchun in his residence in Abuja, Kalu describ
Shoot-At-Sight Order: Igbo group drags IGP to UN, ICC
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja
A leading socio-cultural association of Igbo professionals under the aegis of Nzuko Umuna, has described as horrifying, frightening, and unutterable in a democracy, the shoot-at-order the Inspector General Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, handed to police officers in the South East.
The group, which addressed a world press conference in Abuja on Monday, noted that the IGP gave the directive in Enugu on May 18, when he launched Operation Restore Peace in the Southeast.
Insisting that adherence to such directive could lead to human right abuses and total breakdown of law and order in the region, the group, said it has notified the international community, particularly, the International Criminal Court, the United Nation Human Rights Council, as well as various High Commissions and Embassies in Nigeria.
Views: Visits 12 Seeks intervention of NHRC By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja A leading socio-cultural association of Igbo professionals under the aegis of Nzuko Umuna, has described as horrifying, frightening, and unutterable in a democracy, the shoot-at-order the Inspector General Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, handed to police officers in the South East. The group, which addressed a world press conference in Abuja on Monday, noted that the IGP gave the directive in Enugu on May 18, when he launched Operation Restore Peace in the Southeast. Insisting that adherence to such directive could lead to human right abuses and total breakdown of law and order in the region, the group, said it has notified the international community, particularly, the International Criminal Court, the United Nation Human Rights Council, as well as various High Commissions and Embassies in Nigeria.