Chris Njoku, Owerri
AN organisation known as Coalition of South East Youth Leaders or COSEYL has expressed its aversion to the ordeal of Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), since security personnel visited his Oraifite home in Anambra State.
The police have declared the lawyer wanted for killings in his community, a charge he and the proscribed secessionist group have denied.
On Thursday, COSEYL said in Owerri, the Imo State capital, that the siege on Ejiofor’s home was tantamount to “a declaration of war on youths in the zone.”
The President General of the group, Goodluck Egwu Ibem, and Secretary General Comrade Kanice Igwe spoke during an interview.
“We condemn the killing of Igbo youths, children and wanton destruction of properties at Ejiofor’s house,” they said.
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The group accused the police of burning houses in Aba, Abia State in October, and now “they killed our youths and children in Ezinifitte in Anambra State. Who knows the next Southeast State they are going to attack after Anambra. The actions of the police and the Army in Anambra and Abia states have clearly shown that they have declared total war against the people of the Southeast zone. They are security agencies paid with taxpayers’ money to protect life and property, now they have turned around to destroy what they are paid to protect.”
COSEYL also described as spurious the claim by the police that Ejiofor was “involved in a case of abduction, assault occasioning harm and malicious damage to property. If Ejiofor was found wanting or culpable on those allegations charged against him, the only option for the police is to arrest and prosecute him.”
He said Ejiofor has been practicing law profession for 22 years and he is not known for violence or any form of criminality.
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