Group writes Buhari, UN over security threats in the S/East

IPOB alleges Police foul play in killing of its member

The South-East Renewal Group (SRG) has raised an alarm over what it described as security threat posed by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to member of the public in the south east region.

In separate letters to President Muhammadu Buhari and the United Nations (UN), the group drew the attention of the Nigerian leader as well as the world body to various atrocities being carried out by IPOB members in the region.

It expressed concern that if not quickly put in check, the activities of IPOB will cause socio-political dislocation and spark insecurity crisis of regional and national dimension.

The letter signed by Comrade Charles Mbani, National-Co-ordinator of SERG, particularly pointed at the recent formation of the Biafra Secret Service (BSS) by IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu.

“By its conception, design and intendment, BSS is the militant arm of IPOB, infested with all manner of hardened criminals and deviants. The national security agencies must have intimated you with the other forms of aberrations of IPOB in this direction,” it stated.

The letter was copied to the National Security Council, All Heads of Security Agencies in Nigeria, The Senate President, Speaker, House of Representatives, The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and the South East Governors Forum.

Others are all South East State Governors, National & International Human Rights Organizations, All Civil Liberties organizations’ (CLOs), All Civil Societies organizations’ (CSOs), High Commissions & Foreign Missions in Nigeria, All First Class Traditional Rulers in Nigeria, as well as all Religious organizations.

The SERG said it feared that failure to checkmate this illegality, the trend may be replicated in other parts of the country, as the next general elections in 2019 approaches.

It therefore pleaded with President Buhari, “never to abandon the Southeast region to these criminal elements who have activated their media infrastructure to blackmail the Nigerian military from carrying out its lawful constitutional duties.”

The group said although, the cost of security operations of this nature is enormous, it however called for the extension of the exercise of “Operation Python Dance II” by a month more, to enable the military embark on thorough cleansing of the land of criminal gangs.