Murder of wedding guests in Imo very unfortunate, says HURIWA

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described the alleged gruesome execution style killing of 7 citizens of Imo State who were reportedly returning from a wedding but gunned down by Ebubeagu a security outfit of Imo State government as quite unfortunate.

HURIWA asked the National Assembly to investigate this particular incident of alleged mass killing of wedding guests in Imo State and identify the killers so the office of the Inspector General of Police and the Federal Attorney General can charge them for murder.

The group also alleged that the Imo State government has taken sides with the killers of Imo citizens.

“Assuming without conceding that those killed were not wedding guests as claimed by Hope Uzodima, why should Ebubeagu fire their bullets to kill persons riding on motorcycles?

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“What is lawful would have been for the Imo State government to investigate the killing but sadly the governor even took sides before ascertaining what really happened. This is so cruel, inhumane, wicked, irrational and insensitive that the governor can dismiss the alleged mass shooting of Imo citizens on the excuse that they were ‘bandits’ even before any sort of forensic probe is instituted”.

HURIWA gathered that the incident happened on Sunday while the victims were returning to their village in Otulu in Oru East LGA before the gunmen opened fire on them just as the President General of Otulu community, Nnamdi Agbor, told newsmen that seven persons died on the spot while others were missing.

The community leader confirmed that the victims were on their way home when the gunmen opened fire on them.

HURIWA expressed shock and consternation that rather than order a transparent and an independent judicial investigation of the alleged mass killings, the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma said that government will not be deterred by propaganda and blackmail in her quest to protect the lives and property of Imo citizens.