NUF Condemns Killing of Vigilantes in Anambra

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Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, a social cultural organisation in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria has condemned the recent killing of five members of Anambra Vigilante Group, AVG, in Ihiala Local Government Area by some unknown persons. It also demanded that Anambra State government should pay the families of the victims N10 million each.

In a statement made available to the magazine on Saturday, the President of the NUF, Augustine Chukwudum, said the organisation is worried about the spate of killings in the zone in the past three years because the development gives the impression that human life was no longer sacred.

Chukwudum said, “We Ndigbo are not known for this evil atrocity that is ongoing in our land today. We Igbos are known to be our brothers’ keepers. That is why we are shocked to the marrow because this heinous crime that is being perpetrated by agents of the Devil who have no value for their fellow human beings are going to put thousands of families in tears that will take up to 50 years to wipe if at all the tears will be wiped.

“Those people that were killed are breadwinners of their respective families and benefactors to other people. They are also people’s husbands, wives, brothers, sisters. They are gone forever,”

NUF appealed to President Bola Tinubu to do all that was necessary to boost security in the South-East. It also called on the governors of the zone to expand the economies in the zone to create jobs for young people that are now taking to crime to survive.

“If our governors have executed democratic projects in the past 25 years of civil rule, our region will not be going through this insecurity,” it said, accusing the governors in the zone of looting the economy rather than providing democratic dividends.

“This is why the region is lagging behind in development despite all the resources we are endowed with. We commiserate with the victims’ families and pray that the Almighty God grants them the fortitude to bear the irreparable losses,” Chukuwdum said.

He called on the Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, to compensate each of the families of the deceased with N10 million, and offer scholarships to their children up to higher institutions.