Chris Oji, Enugu
Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday called for a judicial enquiry on the alleged burning of the home of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu, by the police.
Its President-General Chief John Nnia Nwodo faulted the police for using “maximum force” against unarmed citizens.
In a statement by his Media Adviser Chief Emeka Attamah, Nwodo condemned what he called an unprovoked attack on a law-abiding citizen.
He said Ejiofor’s only crime was that he peacefully objected to the maltreatment of his people.
The Ohanaeze chief said the claim by the police that Ejiofor was “involved in a case of abduction, assault occasioning harm and malicious damage to property” held no water.
According to him, nobody was mentioned as Ejiofor’s victim.
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“Assuming without conceding that Ejiofor was culpable on a charge of abduction, the only option in law available to the police is arrest and prosecution under the laws of Nigeria and not deliberate arson and wanton destruction of his family home,” Nwodo said.
He believes that before it was wrongfully proscribed, IPOB was never a violent group and could not have summoned enough force to attack and kill any policeman to warrant drafting in a reinforcement.
Nwodo frowned at a situation where any mild expression of dissent against the “manifest injustice being perpetrated against a particular ethnic group in the country” will be met with maximum force by the Federal Government.
The Ohanaeze President-General called for an end to the incessant physical, economic and political harassment of Ndigbo.
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