Ohaneze Ndigbo lament marginalisation of south east
- The Ohaneze Ndigbo said the south east region has been marginalised
- The president-general of the group said Biafra agitation may soon get more members
- It said it was bad that Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists have not been prosecuted
The Ohaneze Ndigbo has warned that most Igbos may soon join Biafra agitation is the region continues to be marginalised and treated unfairly.
Chief John Nnia Nwodo who is the president-general of the apex Igbo group said he was not a tribalist having been the President of the University of Ibadan students’ union but as the Ohaneze leader, he had to convey the message of his people.
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Vanguard reports that Nwodo emphasized that he witnessed the Biafra civil war and does not want to experience it again and so the government should restructure the system.
He wondered by members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra were being gunned for carrying placards while Boko Haram terrorists and Fulani herdsmen have not been prosecuted.
He said: “Law enforcement agents should not dramatise to the nation that they are from a particular part of the country, confer an immunity on criminals from that part of the country and requires a high-handed approach to those who do not come from that part of the country.
“The selective prosecution of criminals in our country and the exertion of brute force in certain areas of the country even without the apprehension of crime destroys the very foundation on which this federation is founded. We have increased ethnic consciousness within the length and breadth of this country and this has fired separatist interests.”
He also spoke about the exchange of words between Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Willie Obiano of Anambra State insisting the matter has been settled after he spoke with the duo.
He said: “What happened between Governor Okorocha and Governor Obiano is just a storm in a tea cup and it has been accentuated by your colleagues in the way they addressed it. They had a principled disagreement about a representation of which number of governors were crossing from one party to the other. One made an assertion and the other made a denial. The rebuttals were taken over by their press aides and put in such unpalatable light that embarrassed their superiors. When it happened, I called Governor Okorocha and he was in South Africa. He was not even in Nigeria at the time the rebuttals were issued instantaneously and replied and claimed not to have seen the rebuttals before their publication.
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“Governor Obiano, on the other hand, was totally embarrassed. He said to me, this is not my language. I could not have gone this far. I was prepared to discipline my staff until they presented a defence of the Imo governor’s writing but they did not bother to contact me before writing those things. They felt they were doing me a favour. He said how could I discuss my colleague in that manner and two wrongs don’t make a right.
“So, in the circumstance, he made a phone call to governor Okorocha and they both discussed it and put it behind them. And they have both respected my plea for an injunction that this matter should not go ahead and that has happened. We are both planning to have a meeting of all the South-East governors, which will discuss the basis of our relations.”
Source: Legit.ng
