Human and pro-democracy activists have faulted the blockade of the Niger Bridge by the Nigerian Army.
The ‘Operation Python Dance’ was recently launched by the army in the South East to provide security in the zone.
Chairman of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Emeka Umeagbalasi, described it as a declaration of Jihad against the zone.
He urged the Federal Government and the Army authorities to immediately dismantle the road blocks.
According to him, the army’s internal security should not translate to psychological war against a particular ethnic group, especially at a period it is known they return home to celebrate Yuletide
“The army’s occupation tagged ‘Operation Python’ is nothing but a plot to subject the entire South East to untold hardship, torture and extortion,’’ he alleged.
He said with several massacres the Fulani herdsmen had perpetrated in the country, especially in Southern Kaduna, the Federal Government and the Army have not set up operation to checkmate their excesses.
The activist noted that the road blocks already created by the soldiers on major roads in the South East were already creating hardship for the people even before the Yuletide.