Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the scary communal clashes in the South-East state.
A communal conflict in the state between the Effium and Ezza Effium peoples had turned violent, resulting in several killings.
President of the AESID, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, in a statement specifically said it was alarmed by the persistent killings ongoing in Effium community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.
The group accused the Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi, of indifference to the killings despite several wake up calls from several quarters.
“We vehemently condemn Wednesday’s slaughtering of scores of Ezza fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, including the setting ablaze of many homes by the hired fighting militia men.
“The sad incident could have been averted if the government has ever lived up to its responsibility of protecting lives and properties.
“AESID is deeply saddened that under the present Umahi administration, the lives of Ebonyians are as worthless as tissue paper.
“We recall advising the state government in January on the urgent and genuine steps it must take to tackle and resolve this crisis tracing it back to the actual root of the conflict. Two months after, the Umahi government obviously seem to have taken sides with those they consider the enemies of Ezza nation like it was the case of Ezillo in 2010 in perfecting what we may call it’s ‘secret war against the majority and dominant clan’ in Ebonyi state- the Ezza nation. We may be right if we conclude that this is part of the politics and mind games ahead of the 2023 elections in the Salt of the Nation called.”
While insisting on the direct intervention of the Presidency, the Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) advised Governor Umahi not to back any of the warring community but take measures to convince the citizens that he belongs to all constituents.
They demanded the arrest of masterminds of the attack on the Ezza community.
“AESID makes no hesitation to invite the Federal Government and all its agencies to uncompromisingly wade into this matter in order to nip this crisis in the bud.”
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