The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State chapter has condemned in its entirety, what it referred to as the government’s questionable silence and insensitivity over the alarming rate of organ trafficking and ritual killings in the state.
The party, in a release signed by its State Publicity Secretary, Lancelot Obiaku, regretted that despite efforts by concerned human rights activists, the media and narratives of some of the victims who were lucky to escape from their abductors, the Hope Uzodinma administration has not taken any meaningful step towards addressing the menace of the blood sucking criminals and their cohorts.
The party noted that it is criminal and mindless of the Hope Uzodinma government in the state to fold its hands and watch innocent citizens being killed and butchered by organ traffickers, ritual killers and kidnappers who have been on the prowl in the state for a very long time.
“The government’s questionable silence and refusal to take any meaningful action towards arresting the ugly trend is utterly worrisome.
These evil men who are said to operate with Mini busses and Toyota Sienna vehicles disguise themselves as transport workers to pick up their victims mainly from the major cities of Owerri and Orlu and take them to their camps in the remotest parts of the State and beyond where they kill them, harvest their body parts and sell to their syndicates across the country. This is after dispossessing their victims of all their valuables and, in most cases, collecting ransom from their relatives.
In one of the cases, a twenty-year-old girl named Miracle, who escaped from them, was picked up from the Garden Park area of Owerri and lost consciousness as soon as she entered the bus, only to find herself in the border communities of Okigwe. At the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, students and residents around the institution have variously lamented how students regularly go missing. The Iheagwa, Obinze, Avu, and Okigwe areas of the State have also become catchment grounds for these evil men. Many families have had their loved ones leave for their day’s activities and fail to return home without any traces of what had become of them.
Curiously, the government doesn’t seem to care. Whether or not people die is not their business because they attach no value to human lives. Sadly, in Uzodimma’s regime, lives have become worthless. This is where we have found ourselves.
How can a government saddled with the protection of lives and property of citizens be so irresponsible and mindless? What will it take the Governor as the Chief Security Officer of the State to get the security agencies to flush out the perpetrators of this heinous crime and stop the destruction of innocent lives and the trauma to the families of the victims?
We call on the State government to wake up from slumber. The citizens of the State deserve to live, even as they grapple with and suffer for the government’s disastrously poor governance riddled with monumental corruption and greed.
We once again alert the State Commissioner of Police, the Commander of the 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze, and the NSCDC commandant in the State to this issue. We call on all security agencies to rise to their duties. Vehicles without plate numbers have no business plying our roads. With all the multiple roadblocks and checking points on all Imo roads, it is unimaginable how the rate of these crimes is alarmingly high.
The State government must join in calling security agents to do better and collaborate with them to ensure effective discharge of their duties as it relates with the subject matter. We cannot continue to pretend that all is well while abnormality is made normal”.
