- The Igbos have become highly provoked by
the notice given their kinsmen by some
northern youths to quit the region
- Evang Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko of the Igbo
Youth Movement issued a warning to the
northern groups and called their threat
childish
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has
warned that it is prepared for to fight
against any provocation coming from the
north.
Reacting to the three-month notice
handed Igbos in the north by some
groups to leave the region, the IYM said
the people of the south-east were not
scared of war.
Evang Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, the
founder of the IYM, described the notice
from the northern groups as childish in a
statement sent to newsmen.
According to Ugochukwu, instead of
issuing such a threat, the northern
coalition should have written to the
National Assembly and other world
bodies for a referendum to be held.
The statement read: "The statement from
a hitherto unknown northern group is
primed to deliver a message to the whole
world that some people prefer bloodshed
to peaceful restructuring of Nigeria.
“The non-existent group merely represents
an attempt by the sectional security
apparatchiks to intimidate the struggle to
reconstruct Nigeria, in their blind and
unintelligent attempt to sustain the clearly
unworkable status quo.
“If they were serious, they would have
addressed the FG to grant Biafra freedom
to secede, but they are childishly targeting
Igbo property in the North, without
advancing total complete split of the
country.
“Igbo property in the North have always
been used to blackmailing our people,
while the mindless oppression continues.
"We therefore plead with this unknown
group to write to the National Assembly,
northern leaders and the United Nations,
to as a matter of urgency, grant a
referendum on the future of Nigeria. That
way, everybody will take them serious.
“Targeting our properties in the North do
not frighten anybody, we are used to that.
We beg them to amend their childish
statement to demand for an early
referendum.
"That would make more sense. Our people
are living in hell already. We are not
scared of war mongering, Referendum is
the way to go.”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com reports that the
Kaduna state government has ordered
the immediate arrest of persons who
signed a statement ordering Igbos out of
northern Nigeria.
The state government in a statement
issued by Samuel Aruwan, the
spokesman to the governor of Kaduna
state on Wednesday, June 7, condemned
what it described as inciting, hate speech
targeted at citizens of Igbo extraction.
It said: “The Kaduna State Government
takes exception to the fact that the
'northern youths' did their irresponsible
press conference in Kaduna.
"This government has been consistent in
taking action to punish hate speech and
incitement. People who may feel unhappy
about irresponsible comments or actions
that have taken place in other states must
know that two wrongs cannot make a
right, and they cannot use our state to do
or say things that threaten the peace."
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