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Aba Attack: Labour Party Faults Threat of “Overwhelming” Military Onslaught On Abia

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Labour Party on Sunday faulted the threat by the Nigerian Army that it would bring ‘overwhelming military pressure on the group to ensure their total defeat’ of killers of five soldiers in Abia State on Thursday.

The party viewed the military’s remarks as having the potentials of engendering a humanitarian crisis if the retaliation turns out to be occupational, indiscriminate and unrestricted.

It said that “News from Aba and its environ is scary as youths and young men are reported to have started deserting the area for the fear of their lives. Meanwhile, the perpetrators must have most certainly fled from the area leaving the Innocent and the vulnerable at the mercy of the military.”

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It also denounced the killing of the soldiers, as it however called “on the military to go after the perpetrators only to avoid any collateral damage on the side of the Innocent and law abiding citizens.”

It recalled that “Abia state has remained the most peaceful state in the whole of South East obviously due to the untiring efforts of the state government to weed the state of all criminal element in the last one year, therefore, the Labour Party thinks this latest attack was a deliberate act to conflagrate the state with actions capable of attracting reprisal from the military.”

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Obiorah Ifoh, pointed out that “Unknown gun men or whatever names they chose to bear do not deserve to be spared. They have caused untold and unnecessary pains to the South East and deserved to be wiped out but we urge that the military response to this latest act of provocation must be measured and targeted at these elements alone.”

Part of the statement further urged “the military not to fall into the bait set by these men who will soon meet their Waterloo.

Abia state has witnessed massive developmental strides in the area of infrastructure, and has been turn into an investment haven, we therefore urge the military not to allow this unfortunate incident to recede the progress.”

While emphasizing its concern over the army’s posture towards the incident, the front runner opposition political party called for more intelligence gathering in identifying the culprits, and rooting them out.

“Any onslaught against the citizens by way of abduction or extra judicial extermination will be regrettable,” Ifoh maintained.

This is as LP commended the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, for his prompt action by pledging to support the military in whatever possible means to ensure that the culprits are brought to book and for also announcing a N25 million bounty on the perpetrators of the heinous crime.

“While we commiserate with the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja and the entire military command on the unfortunate incident and pray for the repose of the soul of the gallant heroes, we are however worried by the threat by the military command to avenge the death of the soldiers. We urge the military to be professional in their approach for vengeance in other to avoid further loss of lives,” the statement stressed.

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