WARRI—THE Itsekiri National Youth Congress, INYC, has warned against politicising the killing of 12 Itsekiri and the burning of seven villages by some Ijaw militants of Egbema extraction.
The youths also noted that the Federal Government had failed in its responsibility of securing the lives and property of Itsekiri natives, saying that violence was being encouraged by the refusal of government to bring the criminals to book.
Chairman of the group, Mr. David Tonwe, who briefed newsmen to mark the 24 –day remembrance of the killing of 12 Itsekiri and the burning of some villages by Ijaw militia in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State on July 2, 2013, noted that the recent incident reinforces the theory of a pogrom that had been carefully executed in the past two decades by the Ijaws against the Itsekiri people.
He said that the Itsekiri became vulnerable after submitting their arms in accordance with the amnesty programme of the Federal Government, adding that the July 2 attack was a testament to the fact that governments at all levels were incapable of securing lives and property of the ordinary citizens.
INYC called on Ijaw leaders to fish out the killers in collaboration withsecurity agencies, saying that it was not enough to condemn the act as being the handiwork of criminal elements in their midst, even as it expressed regret that the Federal Government had not deemed it fit to send any delegation to visit the affected people and communities.
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