Communique: Traditional Rulers React to the Transfer of Boko Haram to Prisons in Anambra State

 

COMMUNIQUE BY THE TRADITIONAL RULERS OF ANAMBRA STATE ON THE TRANSFER OF BOKO HARAM SECT MEMBERS TO THE STATE.

At an emergency meeting held on Friday, 3rd July, 2015, the Anambra State Traditional Rulers raised the following concerns:

Leaders of Anambra Communities React to Boko Haram Prisoners Transfer

 

We the Presidents General (Community Leaders) of the 177 communities in Anambra State, under the auspices of the Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) received with shock, embarrassment and disdain the news that the Nigerian Prisons Service, a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs had transferred some detainees of the dreaded violent terrorists of Boko Haram extraction from Borno State in the North East Zone of Nigeria to Ekwulobia in Aguata Local government Area of Anambra State.

Ekwulobia Boko Haram Saga: Obiano in Closed Door Meeting with Delegation from Abuja

 

The controversies generated by the curious transfer of 47 Boko Haram suspects to Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State may soon go away following a 2-hour closed door meeting Wednesday between the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano and a 7-man delegation from the National Security Adviser at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia.

BOKO HARAM PRISONERS, SALT IN OUR INJURIES by Hon. Chinedu Nkwonta

 

Nigeria and the entire world know that the highest victims of the insurgency in the Northern part of this country has been the South East, Ndigbo. There is no State in Igbo land that has not gotten reasonable shares of the consequences of the bombings and killings perpetrated by this callous and deadly sect.

It clearly amounts to insensitivity from the part of the decision makers on security matters in this country to lumber us with the same people that have killed most of us, maimed some of us, displaced some of us, made some of us refugees in our country, chased so many of us away from the locations we have lived and invested our efforts and sweat over the years. These internally displaced brothers and sisters of ours, instead of getting compensated by the Government, instead of being rehabilitated emotionally, psychologically and financially for irreparable and irreplaceable losses that they have suffered, are now being pursued into the villages by dumping the same people that have been dealing with us ruthlessly at our door steps.