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From Magnus Eze, Enugu
A non-governmental organisation, Billie Human Rights Initiative, has revealed that it was documenting all electoral violence in the South East for possible prosecution.
National Religious Officer of the body, Rev. Ugwu Leon, told Daily Sun, yesterday, that the group was considering dragging perpetrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“In case the rights of people are trampled upon in the course of this election, we will drag offenders to ICC. By the special grace of God, we have done it before and we are still in it. Because I say it without mincing words, it is if the good ones keep quiet in any society that evil will prevail. Evil prevails in any society because the good people keep quiet,” said Leon.
He urged South East residents to freely exercise their civic duties by trooping out en-masse to vote during Saturday’s gubernatorial and state Houses of Assembly elections.
He frowned at persons committing crimes in a bid to win electoral positions, insisting that such actions were alien to the region.
“If the killing in the South East is the making of man, God will surpass them because there is nothing one can hide from God. The devil is using some people to do some nasty things in the South East including killings and kidnappings. It is not in the nature of the Igbo man and Enugu being the capital of the old Eastern region to kill or to kidnap.”
“You don’t force people. It is just like sleeping, do you force somebody to sleep? So, I am insisting that it is their right and if there is anyone intimidating them, we need to know who those people are, not because we have not been hearing about it but this time it will not happen again. And if they can continue to do it, thank God the election has been shifted from 11th to 18th but delay is not denial. It is an opportunity for them to change.”
