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Anambra guber candidate condemns military action on IPOB members
The gubernatorial candidate of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA), in Anambra State, Godwin Ezeemo, has described the Python Dance II military exercise as uncalled for in the south-east region.
Speaking after watching some video clips of soldiers subjecting some young people to torture and shooting them, the PPA guber candidate decried what he termed “a total disregard for human life” by the soldiers.
Ezeemo called on Nigerian government to call it off as it was heightening the tension and suspicion already in existence in the area.
“Civil disturbances are meant to be handled by the police, especially such that do not involve firearms. while I am not in support of the activities of the IPOB, I am against the kind of treatment they are getting from the Nigerian army even when they are not armed.
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“There are other more civilized ways of checking the activities of people the army believe are causing unrest in the society; they can be arrested and detained but not killing them or torturing them and making them to drink polluted water. Whatever disease they contract would spread to the rest of the people.”
He added that, “Humans are humans regardless of who they are; someone gave birth to them and is looking up to them as their social security; to look after them in their old age,”
The PPA guber candidate however advised Nnamdi Kanu and his loyalists to be more civil and cautious in their choice of words; to be less inciting and more persuasive. Read also: Politicians responsible for south-east mayhem—- Army Spokesman
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