Mary Akanbi
30th August, 2025
A human rights lawyer, Barr. M.O. Idam has written an open letter to Governor of Ebonyi State, Governor Ogbonnia Nwifuru, decrying a renewed attack on the communities of Amasiri
*See the letter dated 29th August, 2025 below;*
29/08/2025
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR FRANCIS OGBONNIA NWIFURU
Sir,
RENEWED ATTACKS, TENSION AND HOSTILITY IN AMASIRI.
I read in Premium Times News that someone is trekking from Lagos State to thank His Excellency in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State for restoring peace in his community, Effium— I am motivated to again write your Excellently, urging him to in like manner, graciously implement the strategy that restored peace in Effium in Amasiri. It is needed urgently.
The “Thank You Trek for restoring peace in Effium“ if not a heist or a superficial political ploy, orchestrated just to redeem the Governor’s lax security effort in Ebonyi State, why have communities in Amasiri not experienced a similar peace restoration to end the continued incessant attacks and killings of their citizens over land disputes?
If the Thank You Trek-A-Thon for peace restoration is to be reckoned as genuine and deserving, it will have to pass as implicit confirmation to selective governance in the State. Otherwise, communities in Amasiri would not be helplessly entwined in security turmoil when the state governor has a potent strategy that has successfully restored peace one of the communities in the state.
Are the people of Amasiri still paying for their choices during the last election?
I understand the Governor to have once blamed them for not overwhelmingly voting him in the last election. Hence, he vengefully ignored their cry and then wrongly threw everyone in their communities including the numbers that voted him into same recycle bin.
May I remind His Excellency that there is resumed unprovoked attacks, hostility, tension and anxiety in Amasiri communities currently, with natives fleeing for safety and every known channels of communicating a government having been exhausted by the people with the governor still paying no attention.
If a Trek-A-Thon is all that is required to attract His Excellency to restore peace in the communities, HE is assured of not just a Thank-You-Trek to the Government House—once he restores peace in the Amasiri Communities, praise songs will also be sung in all the radio stations in Nigeria.
Your Excellency sir, the Effium peace template ( if anything to go by) is urgently needed to restore peace in Amasiri. Indigenes can no longer freely sleep with both eyes closed in their hitherto peaceful communities. There is increased anxiety and hostility. Your Excellency is needed to put politics behind and intervene to save lives.
Yours truthfully
M.O. Idam
m.o.idamattorneys@gmail.com
