Obi condemns Anambra killings, demands probe

By Vincent Ujumadu

The 2023 Labour Party, LP, statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned the sidesplitting of traders, including a large woman, by a state-backed information outfit successful Onitsha, Anambra State.

He described the incidental arsenic “deeply troubling” and called for thorough scrutiny, due reorganization, and strict accountability of information outfits.

According to him, the incidental highlighted the urgent request for oversight and accountability successful state-backed information groups, which person go a root of fearfulness alternatively than extortion for citizens.

The erstwhile Anambra State Governor stressed that information agencies and assemblage outfits should beryllium cautiously vetted, trained, and monitored to guarantee professionalism and forestall abuses.

In a post  titled: “Curbing the Excesses of State Actors,” connected his verified X handle, connected Wednesday, Obi besides demanded a probe of the incidental and due sanctions for culprits.

The ex-Anambra State Governor said, “At a clip erstwhile our federation is grappling with superior information challenges, with everyone looking for ways to mitigate them, adjacent supporting for authorities policing, it is precise worrisome that already state-backed outfits that were created to assistance with the concern and amended security, are alternatively worsening the plight of the already terrorised citizens and sometimes acting adjacent worse than the criminals they were meant to confront.

“Rather than offering protection, they person go a caller root of fearfulness and oppression.

“The tragic shooting and sidesplitting of traders, particularly the sidesplitting of a large pistillate successful Onitsha, is profoundly troubling and highlights the urgent request for thorough scrutiny, due re-organisation, and strict accountability of these outfits.

“Last time, it was a antithetic group, Udo Ga-Achi Security Outfit successful Anambra, that brutally assaulted a younker corper. This time, different outfit is shooting and sidesplitting guiltless citizens.”

“The information concern successful Anambra appears to beryllium deteriorating further. The activities of this radical indispensable beryllium thoroughly investigated, and each those liable for this heinous enactment indispensable beryllium brought to justice.

“We indispensable person outfits that are well-scrutinised and bash not run extracurricular the law. Security agencies and assemblage outfits should beryllium cautiously vetted, trained, and monitored to guarantee professionalism and accountability successful their activities.

“Without due oversight, what is meant to safeguard lives tin easy go a menace to the precise radical it is expected to protect.

“My deepest sympathy goes to the families of the victims. May they find spot and comfort, and whitethorn the departed remainder successful peace. -PO.”

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