Utomi want perpetrators of Violence brought to book

Prof. Pat Utomi who is the President of the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, the coalition of all ethnic nationalities and civil societies of the Niger Delta,

has advised the Federal Government to without delay prove to the world that it is truly concerned with the wellbeing and security of Nigerians and foreigners within our boundaries, by swiftly bringing to book all those who were responsible for the massacres that followed the recent elections in some parts of the north

According to Utomi, “there must be no witch-hunting. Every Nigerian must be seen to be subject to the Constitution and extant laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Utomi was speaking at a press conference culminating the 20th extraordinary emergency enlarged national executive meeting of UNDEDSS in Lagos which was attended by notable clerics, traditional leaders and youth leaders of the Niger Delta.

The organisation’s Public Relations Officer, Ms. Annkio Briggs, in her remarks said: “Enough is enough, the recent killings of our southerner children, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers and other butchered Christians of both northern and southern extraction must not be allowed to be just another swept-under-the-carpet symptom of this country’s horrifying culture of impunity that we rose up, nationwide, against in January last year.

“We expect President Goodluck Jonathan, who was prime beneficiary of that January 2011 Peoples’ Revolution, to boldly ensure that all proven perpetrators (including those that incited the mobs through unguarded and un-statesmanlike utterances) be brought to book and subjected to the laws and statutes of this land.”