N.G. O BLAST IGP OVER COMMENT ON AGATU MASACCARE

The Executive Director of Global peace and life rescue initiative (GOPRI), Mr Melvin Ejeh  has described as reckless,  insensitive and unprofessional a statement credited  to the Inspector General of police Mr Solomon Arase,  in Minna Niger state over the Agatu  massacre,  and called on the him to stop  playing  politics with human lives. He stated this in ugbokpo Apa Local government area of Benue State on Saturday,    12 /3 /2016  while reacting to a statement in some national and local media which quoted Mr Arase as saying the Agatu massacre was exaggerated because the people killed in the attack were not taken to any police station nor did he  see  any corpse,   In his words,  Mr Ejeh condermn the statement   in the strongest terms and wonder why an IGP who have built  a very strong and professional name will just rub his name on the mud just for favour from some quarter? This act is unprofessional,  reckless and insensitive and must be condemned  by all well  meaning Nigeria'ns.  we are very disappointed for someone who did not visit  the scene of the attack till date to  arrived at such a grave conclusion,   How can our most respected Arase descend this low?  Was he expecting that those who were running for  their dear lives to carry each person killed to the police station  before burying then,  where and how is that possible? Or  was Mr Arase expecting to see a mass grave or decomposed  Agatu corpse in Makurdi where he visited?. Or the fact that it took four whole days of the attack  before security were deployed not enough for the terrorists to do whatever they want with the people they killed?, The statement is most unfortunate,  unprofessional,  insensitive especially now that  investigation on the matter  is still  on going in several local and international agencies.   As a matter of fact we in the civil society group   who visited the scene and interacted with some direct victims  strongly feel that the death toll in Agatu massacre is  far beyond the 300  being reported by media,  but since the IGP have a contrary opinion ,  we urge him to as a matter of urgency give us the exact death figure,  and also give us the real reason why he refused to arrest the terrorists who confessed before him in makurdi at a stake holders meeting that they killed Agatu people because there 10,000 cattle where killed in Agatu. While we the await the response from the IGP on the exact death figure

 we humbly urge him to remain professional.