A rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has raised the alarm over what it called the scaring rate of killings, abduction and destruction of Igbos’ properties by security agents in the southeastern part of Nigeria.

Intersociety made its position known in a statement signed by its principal officers, Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chinwe Umeche, Esq., Chidimma Udegbunam, Esq. and Uju Igboeli, Esq.

The group accused the Nigerian Government of using and hiring Igbo deviants, Civil Society Organizations and other social groupings located within and across the borders of the country to fight the Igbo nation.

It also noted that there is maddening rate of priced to kill, abduct, eliminate and disappear fellow Igbos fighting for Biafra independence by Nigerian Government adding that the development has since January 2021, led to 2,700 arrests/abductions, death of 370 and disappearance of 630 persons.

It also accused that the Federal Government of having hand in actions of the killer security agents who aimed at targeting, tracking, abducting, killing and disappearing thousands of innocent and defenseless Igbo citizens since January 2021.

The statement further reads: “ The saddest and most horrible part of all these is their connivance with the killer security agents of the Nigerian Government in targeting, tracking, abducting, eliminating, killing and disappearing thousands of innocent and defenseless Igbo citizens since January 2021.

“These have led to four types of state killings in recent months in Eastern Nigeria; namely: (1) targeted and instant killings or eliminations; (2) abducted killings or abduction and captivity killings; (3) indiscriminate killings or killings arising from indiscriminate arrests and false labeling; and (4) custodial torture killings or killings arising from deadly use of force on the arrested citizens in custody.

“Several findings abound. Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who, to the best of our investigative knowledge, have never used or advocated violence, have been secretly profiled by Nigerian Government, aided by Igbo deviants and marked for instant or secret custodial death leading to their indiscriminate tracking and killing since January 2021. In our recent investigation into the ungodly hours of the morning of June 6, 2021 attack and assassination attempts on IPOB Lawyer, Barr Ifeanyichukwu Ejiofor, it was our shocking discovery that information clothed in fakery and used by the operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau, Abuja, were supplied by some Igbo deviants.

“This is to the extent that a leaked signal explaining the outcome of the operation was traced to one of them. A formerly trended video, featuring a tall armed man with others brandishing their assault rifles, was also traced to one of them hours after the attack; with intent to impersonate the slain IPOB Lawyer’s personal aide, Late Samuel Okoro (Alias ‘Biggie’) as the one in the video and target of the FIB’s murderous operation.

“Hours after the Ariaria Junction Army massacre of innocent and defenseless traders and passersby at Aba in the evening of 23rd April 2021 during which no fewer than 30 were killed including over ten that were abducted alive at the scene and shot and killed hours later in captivity; a video showing the killing of the abductees was also traced to one of the deviants. Same was the case regarding the extrajudicial killing of over ten unarmed citizens, abducted hours after the “unknown gunmen” attack on May 29, 2021 at the State CID, Umuahia. Among over 50 unarmed citizens massively abducted by soldiers, at least 10, handed over to the Abia State Police Command in the evening of same day were gathered together and shot dead and falsely labeled by the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Janet Agbede as “unknown gunmen.” A video of their killing also emerged almost immediately and was again traced to one of the deviants.

“Some of these deviants also had a hand in the Saturday night June 26, 2021 international arrest or abduction of the IPOB Leader in Kenya. This is to the extent that movement itineraries, membership lists, meeting places and other vital information regarding members and leaders of the group particularly those, to the best of our investigative knowledge, have never used or advocated violence, are presently in secret custody of the Nigerian Government no thanks to the referenced deviants. The list of the above instances goes on and on.

“These government infiltrations leading to huge loss of innocent Igbo lives and properties and disrespect for the sanctity of their lives are also differently, methodically and systematically applied in other social groupings in Eastern Nigeria such as among church leaders, traditional rulers and politicians including elected and appointed public office holders at federal, state and local levels of Government; all leading to compromises, defections by elected public office holders and their deafness and dumbness on matters collectively affecting human and territorial security.

“This is more so when some critics have labeled the present Government of Nigeria as “the world most corrupt and palm-greasing that serially borrows and serially flitters same on local and international bureaucratic and diplomatic palm-greasing and lobbying/tipping.”

‘Personal Grievances & Misunderstandings Are Not Comparable To Loss of Human Lives’

“The most heinous crime or abomination and sacrilege against any Igbo citizen is for another Igbo citizen to be privy to his or her abduction, disappearance and elimination or killing under situation of jungle justice and inter-tribal and religious hatred, especially that arising from ‘comradeship in struggle’ for the propagation and defense of collective ethnic identity, existence and development. Monies and other enticements collected or accepted from the killer security agents by such Igbo citizen or citizens for such dastardly act are also mortally and immortally accursed, generationally punishable and permanently haunting and hurting. That is to say that there are limits to personal grievances and misunderstandings and they must be distanced from extremism of participating in the massacre of fellow Igbos.”

The group, however distanced itself from any life threatening conducts or others constituting collective and individual security threats, adding that it relationship with Igbo and non-Igbo social groupings such as socio-cultural, intelligentsia, self-determination or indigenous, research, investigative, victims, business, entertainment, religious, civil society and professional communities as well as security and intelligence agencies and public office holders, is strictly to observe and respect human rights and rule of law including justice and improved livelihoods for victims of heinous crimes and sanctioning of their perpetrators; provision of good governance by public officers and rendering of general and priceless services to humanity by state actor and non-state actor entities.

While urging Igbos to unite to fight common course, it also called on Igbos who are involved in the dastardly, abominable and sacrilegious act of conspiring with the Nigerian Government to identify, locate, point, track, eliminate, abduct, disappear, kill, wound, torture, burn or destroy or loot property or properties of his or her fellow Igbo citizen to desist from such act.