Mayor Lucky Igbokwe has appealed to the military not to go on reprisal attacks against innocent members of the community but to identify, arrest, and deal with only persons directly and remotely connected to the gruesome killings of military officers.
Mayor Igbokwe, a United Nations Mayor of Peace in a statement he issued in Umuahia on Saturday strongly condemned the incident describing the killings as barbaric, heinous, and unimaginable, Igbokwe said no circumstances should have warranted such magnitude of wickedness against officials and personnel of a law enforcement agency.
He appealed to the military to adopt the best globally accepted cause of action in dealing with the unfortunate development by avoiding the temptation to vent its anger on the innocent residents of the community.
Mayor Igbokwe asked the military to deploy high-level intelligence gathering to identify, isolate, arrest, and deal with only those connected to the incident but also to allow the innocent residents to come back to their homes, businesses, and schools and continue their normal lives.
He called on the state government and other stakeholders to intervene and work with the military hierarchy to ensure that peace and security return to Ekenobizi and Umuokpara communities.
Mayor Igbokwe, a governorship aspirant in the 2023 elections, called on the federal government to seek a political approach to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, stating that the continuous incarceration of Kanu is only escalating crisis and insecurity in the southeast and it has greatly depleted the economic fortunes of the region
