> Investigate recent killings in Ebonyi, Edda scholars tell Umahi

Investigate recent killings in Ebonyi, Edda scholars tell Umahi


The concerned elders also called for proscription of a group, More Can Be Done, which they described as “a terrorist/killer squad” and for “investigation and prosecution of its founder for genocide and crimes against humanity.”

In a press statement, signed by the Chairman of Edda Intelligentsia, Abia Onyike, and Secretary, Onuoha Ogbuagu, after an emergency meeting held at the weekend in Akanu Owutu Edda, Afikpo South LGA of Ebonyi State, the group condemned “the recent violence and mayhem unleashed on the peaceloving people of Edda Clan which led to the death of not less than four persons.”

Reviewing the genesis of the killings, the group accused an organisation, More-Can-Be-Done, of playing a major role in the crisis.

Describing the organisation as a killer/terrorist group, the intellectuals condemned its existence and operations in Edda Clan. Part of the statement read: “after the killing of the four persons, another young boy, Sunday Oji Nnachi, a JSS 3 student of Comprehensive Secondary School, Ogwuma Edda, was attacked by the More Can Be Done group on Sunday, 10th May, 2020. He was abducted, beaten to coma and was about to be buried alive in the bush before hunters rescued him.

“We have taken a cursory look at the recent political history of our people vis-à-vis the recent slide of Edda Clan to anarchy, political tyranny, violence and unnecessary loss of lives, traceable to the unfortunate formation of the More Can Be Done terrorist group in 2007.

“We therefore call on Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi to set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to look into the causes/sources of the killings in Afikpo South LGA; and also to probe the activities of the More Can Be Done group.”

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