The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has Governor Hope Uzodinma and his predecessor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, to stop causing unnecessary panic and tension in Igbo land, through unguarded media interviews.

The group has, instead, advised the duo to table their findings about the alleged sponsors of violence in Igbo land to the appropriate investigative offices in Nigeria.

According to HURIWA, such memos would help to unravel the real cause and persons sponsoring insecurity and instability in Igbo land, fish out, prosecute and punished them in accordance with the principle of Rule of law.

HURIWA made the appeal through its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, who alleged in a statement Monday, that the federal government may be responsible for the “increasing sabotage of security in the South East.”

HURIWA submitted that “the existence of a lot of ungoverned spaces in the Igbo region, coupled with the failure of security agencies to stop the violent enforcement of the illegal stay-at-home order every Monday was a signal that federal government may be behind the plot to create instability and insecurity in the South East.”

The group said that “it was impossible for mere and unattached armed hoodlums to successfully enforce the illegal order of stay at home on Mondays in any part of the South East region if the security agencies were not behind the organized chaos and anarchy in the South East.”

HURIWA wondered how Orlu and Mbaise in Imo State have become increasingly ungoverned spaces whereby brute force is applied by armed non-state actors to force people to stay at home on Mondays, even when officially, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has denied ever dishing out such an order.

“HURIWA has asked the Senator representing Orlu Senatorial Zone, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, to submit a memo to the office of the National Security Adviser and to the National Assembly’s Committees on Public petition, his findings about who is funding the insecurity in the South East of Nigeria,” the statement read in part.

The rights group has therefore challenged the duo of Okorocha and Uzodinma to end their media war and opt for organised mechanisms of ascertaining the characters sponsoring terrorists to unleash violence on Igbo people

The group also called on the leadership of World Igbo Congress, alongside the credible members of the political elite of South East origin, “to make use of the newly promulgated Nigeria Police Act of 2020 to hire top rated private forensic investigators to get to the roots of the growing instability and insecurity in the South East of Nigeria.”