Spate of killings: Ohanaeze calls for emergency security summit

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo

The apex Igbo body made the call as part of matters arising from the killing by suspected Fulani Herdsmen of Funke Olukunri; daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, on her way from Ekiti state to Lagos. 

President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nnia Nwodo on behalf of the Igbo nation offered Fasoranti and the entire Yoruba their heartfelt sympathies on the mindless killing of his daughter. 

Nwodo flayed the continuous rampaging, plunder, rape, kidnapping and murder of innocent Nigerians by armed Fulani herdsmen, which he noted has climbed to a most worrisome crescendo. 

He also said it was regrettable, the inability of Nigeria Security Forces to disarm and prosecute the criminals, stating that the attitude of the security agencies gives credibility to a growing story of collusion.

In a statement issued by Ohanaeze on Sunday, Nwodo noted that recently, the British High Commission in an advisory to British citizens in Nigeria declared twenty-four of our states unsafe.

He further regretted that in the midst of the killings, the parent organization of the suspected criminals had the effrontery to give an ultimatum to the Nigeria President, Mohammadu Buhari, to rescind his unpopular suspension, instead of cancellation of the RUGA development policy. 

Ohanaeze Ndigbo warns that this latest murder is capable of throwing our country into the uncontrollable break down of law and order.