The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nnia Nwodo yesterday called on the federal government to set up an independent judicial inquiry over the alleged killings by security operatives of members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who staged a peaceful demonstration in Port Harcourt in solidarity with President Donald Trump on his swearing in as President of the United States of America.

The president general of the pan Igbo group, who raised some posers over the circumstances surrounding the killings and arrest of the protesters, lamented that a dangerous trend is emerging in our country.

Nwodo while noting that there was freedom of association and that police permit was not necessary before peaceful protests are held, expressed concern on a pattern of no arrest and prosecution of those responsible for massacres of Nigerians in Benue, Southern Kaduna, and Nimbo in Enugu State.

He said that Ndigbo will not fold their hands and watch their children massacred and incarcerated with such impunity, adding that any “attempt to deal with demonstrations of IPOB in a manner different from treatment of Boko Haram members, Niger Delta Avengers, Fulani Herdsmen and OPC will be discriminatory and unfair.”