Group Urges FG To Probe Killings By Soliders

A nongovernmental organization (NGO), International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has condemned, in strong terms, the twin killings of three policemen on a national assignment led by ASP Felix Adolije, and a civilian in Taraba State as well as a motorcyclist, Citizen Chimaobi Nwaogu Uzoukwa, in Amaise, Umuokereke-Ngwa, near Aba, Abia State by trigger-happy soldiers last week.
It, therefore, called on the federal government to heed the call by Amnesty International to institute a judicial inquiry to unravel the remote and immediate cause of the unwarranted attacks on innocent policemen and the two civilians instead of instituting an Army Board of inquiry it currently did.
In a statement it issued at the weekend and made available to the Daily Independent in Umuahia, the organization lamented the wanton and unwarranted killings of innocent civilians and in some cases policemen by the military since 2015 and described as unacceptable.
It, however, posited that the assassinations of innocent Nigerians allegedly started in earnest in August 2015 when Lt Gen Turkur Buratai was appointed the Chief of staff of the Nigerian Army.
The statement which was signed by Barristers Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Head of Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Evangeline Chidinma Udegbunam, Head of Campaign & Publicity Department and Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman of Intersociety, catalogued the killings of unarmed and defenseless Nigerians by Nigerian soldiers to include the alleged mass murder of dozens of unarmed and defenseless citizens of Igbo ethnic nationality in South East, Nigeria and the killing of not less than 1000 Shiite followers as well as the maiming of over 700 of them in Zaria, North Central, Nigeria.