{"id":77960,"date":"2022-12-15T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sit-at-home-simon-ekpa-new-bandit-gov-umahi"},"modified":"2022-12-15T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:50:08","slug":"sit-at-home-simon-ekpa-new-bandit-gov-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-simon-ekpa-new-bandit-gov-umahi","title":{"rendered":"Sit-at-home: Simon Ekpa new bandit \u2013 Gov. Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi on Thursday said the Simon Ekpa group is a new bandit that terrorizes the Southeast region and vowed that they must be flushed out, especially as the 2023 general election approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi made this known while addressing stakeholders and party members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during the Elders\/Widows Party that took place at the Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that Ebonyi State can\u2019t be part of Biafra, and lamented the continued killings and destruction of lives and properties in the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cWhen this agitation for Biafra started, I told them that this matter will go beyond Nnamdi Kanu. And today, it has gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. Every criminal says he is IPOB. Every criminal says he is ESN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we have another bandit they call Simon Ekpa. Is this the Biafra we desired? To be killing ourselves and displacing others. That\u2019s why we said in the heat of that crisis that Ebonyi State can never be part of Biafra. We are not Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Biafra is to be killing ourselves, to go to the market and start shooting people that have done nothing, to be declaring sit-at-home in our homeland and destroying the economy, for what reason? These things are strange to our culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have phones, and we call our people to call us on phone and tell us where these people are. The Police and Ebubeagu security outfit are on ground. I warn politicians who use these boys. They are the ones that go to court to sue Ebubeagu. They go to national television to condemn Ebubeagu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have killed a lot of Ebubeagu people who are trying to protect our people. I ask all the local government people to give us information because we are ready to enter into the forest to flush out these bandits,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi on Thursday said the Simon Ekpa group is a new bandit that terrorizes the Southeast region and vowed that they must be flushed out, especially as the 2023 general election approaches. 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