The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to address the media in order to clear up the chaos surrounding the South East sit-at-home order.
This follows a series of firefights, targeted violence, and attacks orchestrated by some armed supporters of Simon Ekpa, who lives in Finland.
In recent months, residents and businesses in the South East have been under siege, preventing them from carrying out legitimate operations.
Although the IPOB leadership, has repeatedly distanced itself from any sit-in, urging Nigerians in the zone to go about their legitimate business, it has not prevented people from being killed in the zone.
HURIWA has also condemned law enforcement and the Department of State Services for failing to respond to the dozens of bloody attacks in a timely and effective manner.
HURIWA charged the police and other security agencies in the South East with complacency while commoners were decimated, degraded, and on the verge of extinction.
“The President should let Mazi Nnamdi Kanu speak to Igbo people to affirm or deny the report by his lawyers that he had ordered an end to the Sit-at-home order which one Mr. Simon Ekpa an alleged follower of the detained leader disputed and ordered for forceful implementation of the so called Sit-at-home order,” HURIWA requested.
According to the group, Kanu’s live television broadcast on the confusion surrounding the sit-at-home order would dispel “by some persons loyal to Simon Ekpa that Nnamdi Kanu did not order an end to the economically stagnating sit-at-home order in the South East of Nigeria.
“Secondly, just as was done in Ukraine, President Muhammadu Buhari should democratise arms licences so sane adult Nigerians can bear AK-47 and AK-49.
“If President Muhammadu Buhari is not the sponsor of the chaos in the South-East then let his government adopt a pragmatic approach such as permitting that Kanu addresses the media as a matter of extreme urgency to put an end to these killings,” it said.
