The embattled and effeminate Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has thrown up a new twist into the circumstances surrounding the avoidable massacre of innocent and vulnerable civilians at Uzo-Uwani, Enugu State.
The Governor revealed that at a State Security Council Meeting summoned before the incident, the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, CP Nwodibo Ekechukwu confirmed that suspected Fulani herdsmen were already massing around the community for a possible attack.
The Governor provided the CP with necessary logistics to bring in policemen from other formations a=outside the State to ensure that this incident was averted, but this CP either went home with the monies given to him or was instructed by someone or some people from outside the State to look the other way while these innocent civilians are massacred.
It is painful to know that this Commissioner of Police bears an Igbo name, but his Igboness is contentious. A professional Police Officer is trained to protect lives and properties, and even if this CP did not get any logistics assistance from the State Government, he should have acted professionally by throwing his men into that fight to prevent these terrorists from killing our people. And if he was ordered by superior officers not to intervene, he should have raised the alarm and possibly thrown in his resignation letter. This would have made him a global hero, but this Igbo man looked the other way while his people were massacred by Fulani herdsmen, and he was the same person who insulted all of us by coming out with a statement exonerating these Fulani terrorists parading as herdsmen from complicity in that genocidal act.
At a time when there is a gaping vacuum in Igbo leadership, those whom providence has placed at the right positions to fill this gap keep blowing their chances.
There is no reason why Ekechukwu Nwodibo should still be drawing salary from the Nigerian till as a Police officer. There is no reason why he should not be answering questions from appropriate quarters on why he failed to act after getting scarce intelligence on this incident. I will also not be surprised to see Ekechukwu Nwodibo still wearing that revered Nigerian Police Uniform with hs rank as a Commissioner, or even being upgraded to a higher rank for aiding in the killing of Igbos. But I am sure of one thing; all those who aid the killing of another, may smile here and feel they have outsmarted all of us, but something more dreary than death through swords awaits them.
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