Perpetrators of Ebonyi killings’ll be arrested –Elechi (We’ll believe it when we see it)

Posted by admin Ebonyi, Headlines, State News Monday, January 2nd, 2012

The Ebonyi State Government on Sunday said it had beefed up security in the state to prevent further blood letting and killings of its citizens.

The state government’s assurance was in response to last Saturday’s renewed killing of over 52 members of Ezillo Community in Ishielu Local Government Area of the state.

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeola Adeniyi, who led Governor, Martin Elechi, to Ezillo, said the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, had approved the deployment of mobile police officers from Cross River, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states to assist those in Ebonyi.

As at the time of filling this report, however, Elechi was in a closed door meeting with stakeholders on the communal crisis.

He had said in a live broadcast on the state Radio Service that the incident destabilised the once fragile peace in the area.

Assuring Ebonyi people of adequate security, the governor stated that the current episode was a phase in the cycle of destruction and bloodletting, which have been the lot of Ezillo since Saturday, May 10, 2008 when the crisis started.

He said, “The shock waves sent by the latest incident are not only because of the wantonness of the destruction, but also because it came at a time when Ebonyi people and other Nigerians thought that peace had returned to Ezillo.

“As Ezillo burns and Ebonyi people mourn, I want to assure our people and all Nigerians that the state government will stop at nothing to fish out the perpetrators of this dastardly act neither shall we shirk our responsibility to protect lives and property everywhere in the state. We all feel the pains of the bereaved families and we all share their grief.”

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