Golden Dawn: Igbo Group Criticises Military Deployment in Southeast

A group know an the World Igbo Congress, or WIC, has spoken out against the deployment of military forces in the southeast under what they called ‘the cover of the Golden Dawn operation”.

WIC stated that what is being offered is a new version of Operation Phyton Dance, in which Igbo youths would be massacred once more, much to the delight of trigger-happy soldiers.

The organization pondered what had happened to the Nigeria police, who have a constitutional mission to quell civil unrest in the southeast.

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The group said: “WIC notes that all arms of the military, plus the police and other paramilitary formations are involved in this exercise. It is telling that maintenance of law and order amongst civilian populations has now become the purview of the military as opposed to the police whose statutory responsibility includes the maintenance of law and order in society.

“WIC further notes the irony and significance of launching the exercise in Enugu while similar exercises are supposedly going on simultaneously in some other localities. Discerning minds can see through this subterfuge as the regions and states that are truly in need of peacekeeping (Zamfara, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto, etc.), are not covered by this exercise.

“WIC is concerned that the stage is being set for a repeat of the atrocities of the ugly and murderous python dance that consumed the lives of hundreds of Igbo youth. The COAS has already ordered the so-called “unknown gunmen” to “surrender their arms or face the brutal force of the exercise”.

“Pray, if these phantom characters are unknown, how and why do we expect them to comply with this order?