The Eastern Union (EU), a socio-political pressure band of the individuals of the older Eastern Region has contested the current shoot-at-sight order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the army and authorities in the South East and South-South geo-political zones.
The EU, in a statement issued by its Abuja headquarters on Saturday, maintained that the president was unjust to the Igbo, while his administration had constantly sought opportunities to lose the blood of innocent Igbo men and women.
The statement signed by the EU National President, Hon. Charles Anike stressed: “For about 15 years now, the terror activities of the Fulanis in the different areas of the North and now down to the South, under different names had been condoned by the government.
“In the North East, they’re known as Boko Haram. In the North West, they are called bandits. From the North Central and South West, they answer Fulani herdsmen.
“Now in the East (South East and South-South, they are known as unknown gunmen. However, the truth is that no matter whatever name they chose a different place, it is the same men and women.
“They continue to divide as they develop in their terror activities and as they split they select different names to disguise as distinct groups of people.”
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The EU stated that it was unfortunate that the Federal Government had continued to pretend to not understand or patronise these terrorist groups.
It said that the Presidency had not accepted that they were terrorists, even despite the fact that the international community had recorded the different Fulani groups as terrorist organisations.
“Despite the killings of thousands, kidnapping of thousands of Nigerians for ransom, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Innocent Nigerians, this Federal Government has reconsidered its stands over these rampaging Fulani terrorists to speak of ordering a shoot-at-sight of the terrorists.
“Even those detained by the last government were published by the current government,” it added.
Recalling the Operation Python Dance and Crocodile Smile, the EU lamented the Buhari government, throughout the Military, decimated innocent and lively youths in the regions for no just cause.
It, therefore, called on Buhari to stop what he called yet another invasion of the regions and rescind the shoo-at-sight sequence supplied to the army and the police from the people.
