Group alleges killing of 510 Igbo in 2011

In a letter to the President on Thursday, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Intersociety, Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, said the rate at which Boko Haram killed law- abiding and innocent Igbo in the North had assumed an alarming proportion, requiring urgent reactions from the President.

He alleged that about 510 Igbo Christians in the North were killed by Boko Haram of the 714 total killings perpetrated by the sect during the same period.

Intersociety also called on the Presidernt to invite the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the ethnic killings in Nigeria with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book.

The group also urged the governors of the South-East states to arrange for the evacuation and security of Igbo residing in the North affected by the ethnic and religious killings since their host governors could not do anything about their safety.

“In the past three weeks, according to respected local and international media, up to 204 innocent Nigerian Christians including, at least, 150 Igbo Christians have been murdered by “Boko-Haram,” he said.

Intersociety said the nature and trend of the killings and government’s seeming helplessness about them were an indication that there was a mission to eliminate the Igbo race, one of Nigeria’s three major ethnic groups.

Umeagbalasi said, “Therefore, we demand that Your Excellency should take concrete steps to end further slaughtering of Igbo Christians in any part of Nigeria as well as to pacify the souls of those slaughtered so that they can rest in peace and spare Nigeria of dooms of unquenchable proportions to come if their immortal souls are not made to rest eternally.”