The organisations noted that the “Ebube-Agu Security arrangement” was also a channel through which illicit small arms and light weapons were proliferated in the region, adding that the Imo and Eboniy state governments were particularly culpable in the implementation of the Jihadist Fulani and Islamic agenda.

The report was signed by researchers including; Emeka Umeagbalasi for Intersociety; Ositadinma Agu for Ekwenche Research Institute, Chicago, USA; Prof Justin Akujieze, Board Chairman, Ekwenche Institute; Nze Amadiebube Mbama for Global Igbo Leaders Coalition, Georgia, USA, and Bridget Okafor, Rising Sun Charities Organisation, UK.

The report stated that the remote reasons behind the rising and proliferation of more than 20 armed killer entities in Igbo Land, especially South-East and Igbo parts of the South-South Nigeria since 2015 and January 2021 (when escalations and proliferations heightened) was traced to “Buhari’s bent on laying siege, conquering and enslaving the Igbo Land, her defenceless populations and properties for purposes of radical Islamism and politics of haAccording to the report titled, “Who is killing who outside the law in Igbo land”, the worst affected states include Imo and Ebonyi states, followed by Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Rivers and Delta states.

The report said, “By early 2016, the Buhari’s Government allegedly initiated secret Islamic conquest movements of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Jihadists; assembled from within and outside Nigeria and armed with AK-47s.

“This was the beginning of “political and religious” insecurity and proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons (SALWs) in Igbo Land. The Islamic conquest movements were also strongly suspected to have been heavily aided and protected by the Nigerian military formations during which forests, bushes and farmlands of South-South, South-East, Middle-Belt and Christian parts of the South-West were invaded, seized and occupied.

“Findings by Intersociety later showed that over 700 communal locations including forests, bushes and farmlands across the South-East and Igbo parts of Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Nasarrawa, Kogi and Benue States have been seized and occupied by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Government assembled Jihadists as at 2022.

“These findings were also corroborated by a former Police DIG (retired in 2020) who in 2021 disclosed that “not less than 336 locations in the South-East have been occupied by Fulani Herdsmen armed with AK-47s”.

“The Buhari’s Government also saw the rise of IPOB and its Self Determination agitations as a serious threat to its State Jihad Project and to counter this, the Government adopted radical approaches including funding and arming of counterfeiters using conformist political actors including top Government functionaries in Ebonyi State (under Umahi) and Imo State (under Uzodinma).

“The above was to the extent that the past Government of Ebonyi State was strongly suspected to have been federally contracted to counterfeit and counter the IPOB’s Eastern Security Network (formed in Dec 2020) leading to the launch of ‘Ebubeagu Security Arrangement’ in April 2021 to counter ESN and sustain Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen terrorism in Igbo Land.

“The idea behind the “Ebubeagu Security Arrangement” was later found to have been muted by Buhari Government of Nigeria using the Chairmanship of the South-East Governors’ Forum.

“In Ebonyi State where the dreaded security outfit was unveiled in Dec 2021, it was renamed in March 2023 as “the Ebonyi State Vigilante Corps” and “the Ebonyi State Neighborhood Watch”. The above was as a result of the proscription of the “Ebubeagu Vigilante Group” by a Federal High Court sitting in Abakiliki in February 2023. The “Ebubeagu Security arrangement” is therefore only a counterfeit and anti self-determination instrument.”

“The insecurity and other unsafe conditions in Igbo Land are further fuelled by the growing number of illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons estimated to be 2million in circulation and wrong hands. This is out of Nigeria’s estimated 7million SALWs.”The report added that some “governors are found in this Special Investigative Report to be busy wastefully and lavishly spending billions of naira monthly on “security votes” without anything to show for it. These Governments of the South-East States and those of Rivers and Delta, etc have consistently heightened and over-blown security matters and illiterately paid attention to “trigger dimension” or “cork-and-shoot” as the only solution to insecurity and other unsafe conditions.

“They fundamentally triggered insecurity and other unsafe conditions in Igbo Land by woefully failing to offer good and accountable governances in their respective States. This is to the extent that the general citizens of their States and territories have suffered from the absence of ‘human security’ and its seven key dimensions of environmental security, health security, food security, community security, physical security, economic security and personal security. The Governors and other political leaders in Igbo Land have also turned around and plunged the Region into police and military siege and dumping grounds for illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons and their killing fields.

“Intersociety in collaboration with undersigned international partners have also investigated and found that there exist “Commissioner for Homeland Security and Vigilante Affairs” in Imo State; “Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace and Conflict Resolution” in Ebonyi State and “Commissioner for Homeland Security” in Anambra State. Similar portfolios also exist in Abia and Enugu States. These are in addition to the Offices of the Governors’ Special Security Advisers. In Ebonyi State, there are “Governor’s Special Advisers on Security for each of the State’s 13 Local Government Areas” or “Special Security Adviser to Ebonyi State Governor for Abakiliki, Izzi, Ezza North, Afikpo South, Afikpo North, Ohaukwu, Ebonyi, Onicha, Ishielu, Ezza South, Ikwo, Ivo and Ohaozara”.

“The State is also presently dotted with “35 Commissioners”. Apart from openly or secretly coordinating the offensive and atrocious conducts and activities of many, if not most of the more than 20 ‘Government-linked Private Armies and Political Death Squads’ and condoning or conspiring with the invading Jihadists to wreck havoc in Igbo Land, “the Homeland Security Commissioners and Special Security Advisers of the Igbo Land Governors” also serve as conduit pipes through which public funds worth billions of naira are wasted or squandered every month using “Governors’ security votes” as a cover.”
Source https://saharareporters.com/2023/08/28/us-uk-organisations-release-report-how-ex-president-buhari-allegedly-funded-ebube-agu

IPOB no dey ever tire. From one propaganda to the next

what type of fvckup is this....??

Only an ignoramus doesn't know this. The unwarranted killings going on especially in Orlu ehn.

It is well

ronalmagic10:
IPOB no dey ever tire. From one propaganda to the next

can you imagine....??

this people realy want our trouble....
what nonesense is this....??

it was state governors that set up the vigilante group,not buhari....

and all of them researchers are igbos....!!

All done under APC of course.
Imo and Ebonyi were the pivot states.
Now you know that you Igbo APC member are an accomplice.

ronalmagic10:
IPOB no dey ever tire. From one propaganda to the next

They've exposed ur useless ebubeagu and ur wailing propaganda

tsdarkside:
and all of them researchers are igbos....!!

No source

TheIgborepublic:

They've exposed ur useless ebubeagu and ur wailing propaganda

keep on lyin and pissin people off....

TheIgborepublic:

No source

source my foot....

complete nonesense....

i dont even think igbos have reasonable people left sef....

the way even their leaders talk sef is strange....

didnt south east governors met when ipob was still makin loud noise back then....??
cownunu was still runnin around free then....
didnt they set up the group....??

buhari didnt had to set up any extra group,he already had the military and police to send....

tsdarkside:
i dont even think igbos have reasonable people left sef....

the way even their leaders talk sef is strange....

didnt south east governors met when ipob was still makin loud noise back then....??
cownunu was still runnin around free then....
didnt they set up the group....??

buhari didnt had to set up any extra group,he already had the military and police to send....

Imagine efulefu that supported clueless buhari for 8 wasted years and Ebola now is talking about reasonable??

Are you normal?

Only the most useless and hopeless people on earth will support the two shameless criminal.

So Buhari funded Igbos to kill fellow Igbos. Very interesting

tsdarkside:


source my foot....

complete nonesense....

Stop evading my question

tsdarkside:


keep on lyin and pissin people off....

Ur in severe pains

simpleseyi:
So Buhari fubded Igbos to kill fellow Igbos. Very interesting

Do you even know the majority of ebubeagu members of their tribes?

Just like hitler's thirst for jewish blood, buhari was the covid epidemic in human form to ndigbo ,...especially to those in the southeast.

Ozommadu:


Imagine efulefu that supported clueless buhari for 8 wasted years and Ebola now is talking about reasonable??

Are you normal?

Only the most useless and hopeless people on earth will support the two shameless criminal.

and what is obi....??

tsdarkside:


and what is obi....??

Your nightmare

Echeta ebebe

Gov Dave Umahi even had noisy fanfare when he announced he was forming Ebube Agu in Ebonyi



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2021/04/11/ebube-agu-south-east-governors-establish-new-outfit-to-tackle-rising-unrest/amp/

High treason!
What a WICKED SOUL.
He will die a miserable death.

Ozommadu:


Your nightmare

Echeta ebebe

balablublu....

If Nigeria was a sane country, Buhari would have been sent to the ICC by now.

Noted

Lol...

They will send the Army,Airforce,police,Navy to Igboland..

They will kill us and we will kill them but most importantly.........the terrorist from the Sahel will ravage their lands in the west and in the North,send their families to IDP camps due to absence of their men sent to the Igboland to meet God for judgement,make them refugees in other countries...

In the end, the remaining surviving Army sent to igboland will have no homes or families to go back to and they will also be sent to God for judgement..........MNK

tsdarkside:
i dont even think igbos have reasonable people left sef....

the way even their leaders talk sef is strange....

didnt south east governors met when ipob was still makin loud noise back then....??
cownunu was still runnin around free then....
didnt they set up the group....??

buhari didnt had to set up any extra group,he already had the military and police to send....

Minority trash...

God will always vindicate IPOB

Seun Nlfpmod Dominique, this is the fakest news on the planet earth...

I hope they take it up to the International Court of Justice at the Hague. Non of these high profile terrorists should go Scot free including Buhari and those governors that assisted him.

The blood of the innocent ones they killed will forever haunt them!

PortHarcourtcit:
Seun Nlfpmod Dominique, this is the fakest news on the planet earth...

Continue with your senseless propaganda. So, you're now the decider of which news is real or not, even when you don't live in the East?

The fact that a prominent news channel like Saharareporters is reporting it and it was conducted by some of the most prominent credible NGO's in Nigeria makes it credible.