A prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has asked Imo and Anambra States governors: Hope Uzodimma and Charles Soludo, to resign forthwith since they have shown deep seated incapacity and unwillingness to clinically bring to an end the bloody violence tearing their states apart and which have led to the killings of thousands of citizens of both Anambra and Imo State by sundry armed gunmen and the security forces.
HURIWA said the incessant attacks on soft targets by armed gunmen and the killings of Igbo youths by the operatives of the Police, the DSS, the Army on special operation in the South East of Nigeria to quell the rising agitations for self determination and the fact that the Anambra and Imo States administrations apparently lack the will power to appropriately respond to the expanding frontiers of violence and dastardly crimes of extra-legal killings of citizens and the destruction of strategic public institutions, means that the governors have failed in the discharge of their constitutionally guaranteed primary duty of government which is the protection of lives and property of the citizens. The Rights group said it was clear that politicians in those states were the beneficiaries of the state of anarchy and heightened insecurity because they cart away billions of public fund under the guise of security votes which are not deployed appropriately to secure those states.
Specifically, HURIWA recalled that it was a tragic day for residents of Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State as gunmen once again ambushed and killed two police officers on Saturday, May 20, 2023 which is coming barely one month after gunmen ambushed and killed five policemen and a couple at the same Okpala junction located on the Owerri-Aba Road.
Besides, the rights group said it is also in the same Ngor Okpala LGA that five officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were attacked and slain in March.
HURIWA recalled that information obtained by the media showed that the gunmen initially opened fire on the policemen, killing two of them and one was injured.
HURIWA said one of the members of staff of the US medical mission who lives in Kubwa Abuja with his young family and who was among those on a medical mission to Anambra State that were attacked viciously by armed freelance gunmen, has died, leaving behind his heavily pregnant, full-time wife and two young kids.
The rights group condemned Governor Soludo for failing to visit homes of these staff of US medical mission killed in his state but was rather blaming the victims of the attack for not providing prior notice to the Anambra State administration before visiting Anambra State.
It said the Governor was incompetent if he insists that delegations visiting his state need to tell him before they can be protected.
