South-East governors promise justice on killing of 2 policemen

The Governors of the South-East Nigeria have promised justice in the alleged killing of two policemen by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra who made a video of the incident.

In a statement signed by the Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman, South East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi after a virtual emergency meeting on Tuesday, the governors promised to ensure that justice is meted out concerning the matter.

The governors said the video’s authenticity will be ascertained while pointing out that similar cases in the past were found out to have happened outside Nigeria when the videos were subjected to forensic review.

The statement read in part, “We condemn in strong terms the video clip and write-up we saw in some social and print media where two policemen were said to have been killed and their heads cut-off by youths who styled themselves as members of IPOB/ESN.

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“We have resolved among ourselves to work with security agencies to determine the authenticity of this video/report and if found to be true, to apprehend the perpetrators by all possible means to face the law.

“We are aware of similar videos in the past and which when subjected to forensic review were found out to have happened outside Nigeria.

“We assure Nigerians especially the Police community that we will not rest until we have done justice to this matter.”