Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has sworn-in members of the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission.
The Commission , amongst other issues is charged to identify and investigate the causes of agitations, violence, restiveness and struggle in the South East in addition to identifying groups and stakeholders who have played critical roles in these conflicts, as well as a more detailed investigation to decipher violence as a result of genuine separatist agitations from random acts of criminality and brutality.
The Commission is also tasked with documenting victims, the circumstances of their death, reports of brutality both by security agents and militia, incarceration as well as well as incidents of persons, perhaps kidnapped or otherwise, who have simply vanished without a trace.
In line with this agenda, the commission has called for memoranda from the general public on ways to address perceived agitations in the South East.
All submissions are to be sealed and addressed to to the secretary of the committee on or before the 31st August 2022.
Iyom Bianca Ojukwu, a member of the commission said its members are also liaising with any victims or relatives of victims who wish to make early submissions to the commission and will be meeting with a cross section of stakeholder groups across the state to receive their submissions on the issue.
“This challenge is one that affects each and every one of us in Igboland and our kith and kin in the diaspora. Our people are hurting and families are losing their sons and loved ones almost on a daily basis. Let us all put heads together to find ways and means of addressing the peculiar situation in which our homeland has found itself. This rain is falling on everybody’s roof.
“Please feel free also, to contribute your own suggestions here on ways and means of tackling the violence, gruesome murders, restiveness and the trauma which has afflicted our once prosperous homeland. All hands must be on deck. Together we shall overcome”.
