Your Excellency,
Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru,
Governor of Ebonyi State.
I write to you not just as a citizen of Ebonyi State, but as a deeply angered and disappointed indigene of Amasiri Ekuma Ubaghala. While the gruesome killing of innocent people in Okporojo is condemnable and must never be justified, your response to this tragedy has exposed a disturbing level of bias, injustice, and abuse of Executive Power that calls your commitment to fairness into serious question.
Your decision to dissolve the entire leadership and political structure of Amasiri community—traditional rulers, town union executives, village heads, and even duly appointed government officials—without a transparent investigation or judicial process is nothing short of collective punishment. This action is unconstitutional, morally indefensible, and dangerously precedential.
Your Excellency, crimes are committed by individuals, not by entire communities. By choosing to punish Amasiri wholesale while publicly absolving or downplaying the roles of other parties in this long-standing boundary dispute, you have effectively taken sides, regardless of your verbal claims of neutrality. Even before you became Speaker the case files over that land, Amasiri land have been there.
Leadership is judged by actions, not statements.
It is deeply troubling that while you acknowledged this conflict as a protracted and unresolved boundary issue involving multiple communities, only Amasiri was publicly humiliated, politically crippled, and portrayed as a criminal entity. This selective justice undermines the rule of law and sends a dangerous message that power, not truth, determines guilt in Ebonyi State.
Even more alarming is the reckless dismissal of elected and appointed officials who have not been indicted, investigated, or convicted of any crime. Such actions suggest governance by impulse and emotion rather than by law, fairness, and due process. This is not leadership; it is executive overreach.
Your Excellency, peace cannot be built on injustice, intimidation, or scapegoating. What you have done risks inflaming tensions, deepening resentment, and widening the cracks in an already fragile peace process. History has shown repeatedly that collective punishment breeds bitterness, not reconciliation.
If your administration is truly committed to justice, then the right course of action is clear:
Order an independent and impartial investigation into the killings. You Cannot beat a child and ask him not to Cry Rt Hon Nwifuru you erred in this count.
Arrest, prosecute, and punish the actual perpetrators, no matter their community. I urge you to immediately review and reverse the blanket sanctions imposed on innocent persons.
Treat all communities involved in this dispute with equal scrutiny and fairness. Anything short of this will confirm public fears that your government operates on selective justice and political expediency.
Your Excellency, authority does not equal infallibility. The strength of leadership lies in the courage to correct wrong decisions. Ebonyi people are watching, International community are Watching, God is also watching and history will not forget whether you chose justice or intimidation in this defining moment.
Respectfully,
Princess (Dr) Joy Omagha Idam,
Publisher
Weekenders magazine Online
A Concerned Proud Daughter of Amasiri, Ebonyi State
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