Following a
statement issued on Sunday by the Federal Government that the Indigenous People
of Biafra is allegedly waging war against Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, standing in
defence of IPOB, has described the government’s worry as a complete case of
chasing shadows.
Publicity Secretary
of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Uche Achi-Okpaga in an interview with Vanguard says the
Presidency was drawing attention to an allegation of persecution of Christians
in Nigeria but failed to draw attention to the seemingly intractable insecurity
in the country.
Achi-Okpaga said,
“Would they (FG) also say that there is no insecurity in the country? All over
the country, people are posting on the spot audio and video records of
senseless and targeted killings.
“I think now that
the ovation of the Presidency’s actions and body language have become loudest,
attracting condemnations from highly pedestalled and well-meaning Nigerians,
including the latest letter from Col. Abubakar Umar, the next available
response, as is usual in their colour, is to heap some blame on a given quarter
as the IPOB and deliberately divert attention from the issue.”
Ohanaeze Ndigbo says
it was unfortunate that whereas the President swore to protect the lives and
property of Nigerians, Nigerians are "killed in their homes, their farms,
on the roads, by herdsmen, while travelling, by bandits or Boko Haram
terrorists, as the case may be."
“Perhaps, it is also
IPOB that is sponsoring all that. It is a pity that we are exerting more effort
to tarnish IPOB than to do the needful by ensuring the protection of citizens
no matter whose ox is gored,” Achi-Okpaga said.
Media Adviser to the
President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emeka Attama, said, “The reaction
of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide is that finally, the hen is coming home to
roost.
“The whole lies
against IPOB that made the Federal Government brand it a terrorist organisation
are now wearing off and the world is getting close to exposing the perfidy and
unconscionable maladministration of President Buhari’s five-year tenure.
“It’s preferred
silence over the nefarious activities of the killer herdsmen that has led to
the loss of more than 2,500 innocent lives of Nigerians, mostly Christians, has
been crying out for justice.
“Maybe, the time has
come for the unmasking of who are the terrorists between IPOB and the herdsmen;
IPOB who don’t carry weapons and don’t kill and Ak-47 and other sophisticated
arms-wielding herdsmen and who upon all their crimes, none has ever been
prosecuted in any known court of law in the country.
“It is an attempt to
blackmail IPOB that has backfired
because the truth has emerged.”
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