Worried by the present worsening insecurity in the country, elder statesman and Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo Council of Elders, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has advocated for a meeting between the Igbo and Northern leaders.
In a statement issued in Owerri yesterday, Iwuanyanwu advised the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo, under Prof. George Obiozor, to as a matter of urgency convoke a meeting with the view to finding out the solutions to the ugly security situation to avoid a reoccurrence of what happened in 1966.
Chief Iwuanyanwu, who described the unfolding events in the country as extremely shocking and completely beyond any expectation and human imagination, observed with dismay that the state of insecurity in the country had reached a crescendo, where the blood of innocent citizens are being wasted on a daily basis in various stages of the country.
The elder statesman pointed out that the most worrisome is the recent murder of an illustrious Nigerian, Ahmad Gulak, from Adamawa State, in cold blood while he was on a national assignment as a consultant to the National Assembly on Constitutional Review in Imo State.
Chief Iwuanyanwu, while expressing sympathy to the family and friends of Dr. Gulak, Arewa and other Northern groups and the government and people of Adamawa State, equally commiserated with all those that lost their dear ones through the insecurity situation across the States of the federation.
The frontline Igbo leader recalled that over the years, the Igbo people had enjoyed a very cordial relationship with all Nigerians, including the Northerners, pointing out that the Igbo, as an ethnic group are domiciled all over the country.
Chief Iwuanyanwu, who attributed the worsening insecurity in the country to Boko Haram, which according to him launched a violent attack on Nigerian sovereignty commencing from the North-East, added that Boko Haram ensured that they hoisted their flag wherever they conquered.
The former presidential aspirant in the country regretted that in spite of the effort by the nation’s armed forces, the activities of the Boko Haram had spread virtually to all the geographical zones in the North and is fast spreading to the South.
He commended the Nigerian Government and military for stopping those Boko Haram insurgents from overrunning the entire country.
While thanking the Northern brothers for resisting the temptation for reprisal attack, as such would throw Nigeria into bloodshed and war, Chief Iwuanyanwu called on the security agencies in the country to embark on a full-blown investigation into those killings to expose individuals behind the spilling of blood of innocent citizens.
