Leaders of the Ebonyi Community-based organisation, Ekoli Patriotic Front (EPF), yesterday, urged security agencies in Ebonyi State to investigate and prosecute those behind a fresh false alarm against a former council chairman of Afikpo South Local Council, Eni Uduma Chima.
The group in a statement released in Abuja, regretted attempts by purveyors of the misinformation to cause panic and confusion in the council, noting that such punitive measures will serve as a deterrent to vendors of misinformation.
Led by Chief Agwu Chima Onyike, (President -General), Mr. Okoro Ekuma Anya (Secretary-General) and Comrade Ogbuagu Okwara, National Public Relations Officer, EPF condemned what it called misleading petition against the former council boss by faceless persons under the guise of Ekoli Edda Band of Hope Union.
The group dismissed as false claims by the shady characters in the community with some unknown persons with short guns (pistols), parading himself and the boys within the length and breadth of the community on June 8, 2024.
EPF expressed hope that its communique released after their meeting and sent to the Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, will also guide the authorities on how to moderate the excesses of these sponsors of falsehood.
“As peace-loving and patriotic citizens, we are demanding that the authorities disregard the petition titled: ‘Urgent Security update” for the reason that it is the product of scaremongers and political jobbers.”
“In the same vein, we have called on the faceless authors of the petition to withdraw same immediately, particularly given that the contents are concoctions and drips with tissue of unimaginable lies calculated to malign the former council boss.
“Failure to withdraw the said frivolous petition within the next 48 hours, we shall formally write to the security agencies in the state to investigate and prosecute those behind it,” the group added.
