…Warns against inciting another Biafra war
Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday warned those planning to burn government properties in the South-East region over claims that the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is being poisoned by the Department of State Services, (DSS).
Ohanaeze warned that it would not condone the destruction of government properties in the Southeast or any attempt to cause another civil war in the region.
The Ohanaeze Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, stated this while reacting to a trending WhatsApp message that some youths intend to burn down government buildings in the South-East because Kanu was being poisoned in DSS custody.
According to Isiguzoro: This is an unfortunate development that some people would allege that Nnamdi Kanu is poisoned. Ohanaeze Ndigbo can neither confirm nor deny this allegation that the DSS is poisoning Kanu; but what we cant condone in the South-East was a voice note that was circulated that some miscreants and street urchins staying in Europe and America inciting the people of the region to burn down public properties. This is something Ohanaeze Ndigbo will never condone.
There are processes in which we are going to confirm the allegation by IPOB members that Kanu was poisoned; and I dont believe that such an allegation is meant to incite the public to turn the South-East into another Somalia.
Ohanaeze urged South-East governors to arrest and prosecute anybody caught attempting to disrupt the peace of the region.
He declared that Ohanaeze would fight all violent agitators attempting to cause war in the South-East, saying, We are not ready to fight another civil war with Nigeria, and anybody that wants to start another war and nobody will push Ndigbo into another war.
“Anybody who wants to start another violence in the South-East should be apprehended and dealt with. We are calling community leaders and traditional rulers, religious leaders, and opinion leaders that they should go and fish out anybody planning to engage and destroy the peace and tranquillity of the South-East”.
We cant afford to be refugees and have IDP camps in the South-East; this time, we are going to fight them and ensure we extinguish them that want to consume us, he added.
