A Civil rights advocacy group in Nigeria, International Society for Civil Liberties, Inter-Society, wants an international criminal enquiry into the killings and kidnappings in the South East region of the country.
The leader of the group, Emeka Umeagbalasi during a media conference in Enugu explained that such an independent investigation was extremely necessary for the purpose of unmasking the true identities of those responsible for the spate of killings and kidnappings, as well as arrest of innocent citizens in the region, particularly in Imo State.
Inter-Society is worried over what it describes as the conspiracy of silence by the international secretariat of Amnesty International on alleged mass killings in the region, calling on the international community to ask their respective global rights organisations to focus advocacy on the South Eastern parts of Nigeria.
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The organisation is also worried that amid growing atrocities in the five States of the South East region since 2021, no one has been investigated nor brought to account.
Inter-Society is therefore appealing to the international civil rights groups not to look the other way, while hundreds of citizens are either killed, kidnapped or disappear without traces in the volatile South East region of Nigeria.
(EDITOR: TIENABESO BIBIYE)
