Diasporan Igbo Advocates Deployment Of Hunters To Tackle Insecurity
The Concerned Citizens of Igbo Nation in Diaspora (CCIND), on Monday, called for internal security measures in the South-East region of Nigeria to curb the rising criminal activities in the region.
CCIND disclosed this in a release signed by its spokesman, Emeka Livingstone. The group said the insecurity in Igboland “from Ebonyi, Enugu, and Anambra to Imo and Abia states calls for serious concerns from all well-meaning sons and daughters of Ndigbo”.
The group said the security situation had deteriorated to a significant loss of lives and property in the Southeast. It said it was worrisome that in the month of June 2025 alone, terrorists “deceptively labelled as herdsmen and bandits struck in a vicious attack in Agwa and several other communities in Oguta local government area of Imo State, leaving many dead and critically injured, including a pregnant woman’.
Quoting the release, “The innocent victims were in their homes and farms when these heavily armed herdsmen terrorists invaded their communities in the evening of the first day of June 2025, killed a United States-based returnee, abducted his wife in Umuguma, Owerri West local government area, Imo State.”
It also recalled that in Enugu State, two different herdsmen terrorist attacks occurred within a space of one week. According to the group, “The latest occured on June 9, 2025, when these terrorists invaded Eha-Amufu, a frequent target, in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugwu State, killing several people in Mgbuji autonomous community. Following this was on June 12, 2025, in Umuahia-Akara Road, Abia State, when these terrorists kidnapped all eight passengers and the driver in a Toyota Sienna vehicle and disappeared into the forest.”
CCIND stated that it was worrisome that the terrorists were never apprehended.
The release continued, “These spikes in recurrent attacks in the whole of the South-East are one too many that have led to loss of many lives and property of innocent Igbo citizens in Alaigbo since the extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya where he was kidnapped and forcefully brought to Nigeria by the Nigerian government and her security agencies in June 2021.
“Insecurity in the South-East is at its worst state since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was abducted from Kenya. The politicians of South-East extraction, including current and past governors, National Assembly members have done nothing to stem the worsening insecurity in the region. The most, a negligible
few of them have done so far is paying lip service while the others have kept a deafening silence out of fear of losing political favours. In some cases, some of these politicians tend to undermine the efforts of certain communities and well-intentioned groups formed to protect and secure communities in Alaigbo.”
It regretted that “what started as a provocation from a group that questioned the validity of western life and education; that presented itself as Boko haram, ISWAP, Ansarudeen, Lakurawa and other jihadists, has snowballed into a national security crisis that has gone largely unchecked”.
It described the insecurity in the South-East as a plot to disquiet South-East. It also berated leaders of the region for inaction. It urged Igbo leaders not to stop at condemnation and constant outcry but initiate measures to arrest incessant invasion and terrorism in Alaigbo.
“We therefore call on Ndi Igbo to organize the association of hunters in their various communities in Igbo land to counter the operatives of terror in our bushes and end this carnage, once and for all.
“We must employ and deploy every means necessary and possible for the security, prosperity and preservation of Alaigbo. We therefore earnestly call on Igbo youths to rise, organize and defend Igboland, our only homeland,” the group stated.
Diasporan Igbo Advocates Deployment Of Hunters To Tackle Insecurity is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
