“While Amasiri indigenes and visitors who identify with her are targeted for onslaught by their estranged Oso Edda neighbouring community, who are now on a rampage along the Okigwe-Afikpo federal highway, waylaying vehicles and fishing out commuters who are either of Amasiri origin or identify with Amasiri. This coordinated aggression is freely carried out uninterruptedly as a result of tacit silence from the government of Ebonyi State.

“More worrisome is that there is a totally unprovoked, unwarranted, and needless military resurgence in my community, Amasiri. Overnight, the military, reportedly detailed from Nkwegu Barracks, reinvaded yet again my community, breaking homes, destroying properties, arresting the young and old, and shooting sporadically in a totally peaceful area, without any news of any form of attacks from Amasiri or crisis in Amasiri, while leaving the aggressor, her Edda neighbouring community. This unrest is reportedly aided, sponsored, and coordinated by powerful politicians in Edda zone who have deployed their contacts in government to set the military at all costs against my people in Amasiri, just as a bait to secure a major pogrom or massacre of Amasiri people, simply to achieve their age-long desire to take over her ancestral land.

“The public is hereby notified that there is no crisis nor violence in Amasiri, and her people have not in the least behaved in any manner to warrant a military presence.

“I am constrained to yet again call on Nigerians to speak against the ongoing needless military aggression and urge the Chief of Defence Staff and the Commandant Nkwegu Military Cantonment to withdraw the military operation in Amasiri, which is totally unwarranted and unprovoked, even as I prevail on the Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Francis Ogbonnia Nwifuru, to quickly intervene in this matter to save the lives and properties of the peaceful people of Amasiri.

“The governor is here again informed that there is total unrest in Amasiri, which is occasioned by the military; homes are deserted, farmlands are also not safe, and economic activities have been halted as anxiety and tension now possess the hitherto quiet and peaceful land. The governor is urged to most urgently break the deafening silence and intervene in the matter to restore peace in Amasiri.

“In a loud but very helpless voice, I urge the governor of Ebonyi State to quickly and directly address the situation personally as the Chief Security Officer of the state to curtail the ongoing intimidation, harassment, and prevent a possible carnage on the defenceless and vulnerable people of Amasiri.

“Let the whole world know that there was no reason for the resurgence or re-invasion of the military. The people have remained peaceful and have been attending all the peace meetings called for by the authorities in search of peace.

“The military re-invasion in Amasiri remains unlawful, ill-motivated, self-serving, unwarranted, illegal, unprovoked, and must be condemned by every Nigerian.”