- DIMAPUR — The president of GPRN/NSCN
(Unification), Gen. (Rtd) MB Neokpao Konyak, has said that the group’s
impeached leader N Kitovi Zhimomi orchestrated the recent coup at Khehoyi camp.
- In a press statement issued on Monday, Neokpao maintained
that GPRN/NSCN (Unification), under his leadership, has consistently
endeavoured to achieve reconciliation among Nagas.
- “N Kitovi Zhimomi should have recognised the reality that
reconciliation cannot be achieved under the barrel of the gun or through
dictated terms under duress. It is now an open book for everyone that his
clamour for reconciliation is insincere and deceptive, and GPRN/NSCN
(Unification) will no longer be subjected to his falsehoods.
- “N Kitovi himself had orchestrated and executed the plot by
dispatching his deputy, Kiyehe Yeptho, to seize control of the Ceasefire
Designated Camp, Khehoyi, in collusion with my GSO-1 Brig. Kiyeto Zhimomi. At
that time, most of my senior Army Officers, including the Army Chief Gen.
Samson Aye, had left the camp on 21st March evening, after week-long engagement
of the Naga Republic Day celebration,” the statement read.
- Neokpao questioned the “necessity of snatching away the
weapons of my two senior army officers, Maj. Gen. Phanlong Konyak and Maj. Gen.
Shamlao Konyak, by the intruders” if Kitovi’s call for reconciliation was
“sincere and genuine.”
- “Moreover, the intruders went on looting the armoury and
every valuable from the residence of almost every senior worker. I was in a
traumatic condition and my personnel, having fortified my premises exercised
utmost restraint. Even a spark could have ignited heavy casualties.
Also read: GPRN/NSCN (Unification) reiterates impeachment of Kitovi Zhimomi
- “If reconciliation was a genuine intention of Kitovi, why
was I subjected to such humiliation, permitted to retain only two weapons while
coming out for medical treatment? To avert potential armed conflict between my
men and Mr. N Kitovi’s raiders, I express sincere gratitude to the WSH and WCPO
leaders for their intervention,” he stated.
