Biafra : 'Pack your
things and leave north now,' IPOB tells Igbos
Biafra 'Pack your things and leave north now,' IPOB
tells Igbos
The
Nnamdi Kanu-led IPOB also thanked the northerners for giving the Igbo an
advance warning to vacate the north.
- Published: 10.06.2017
- Dimeji Akinloye
Nnamdi
Kanu
(AFP)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has told Arewa
groups to give the Igbo time to relocate back to the south.
The Nnamdi
Kanu-led IPOB also thanked the northerners for giving the Igbo an advance
warning to vacate the north.
Some
Arewa youth groups had a three-month quit notice from the north to Igbo
residing there.
Kaduna
State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and other northern Governors had kicked
against the notice but some elders in the region backed the eviction of Igbo
from the north.
The
Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Friday, June 9, threw its weight behind the call
for Igbo to vacate the region.
In a
statement signed by Emma Powerful, IPOB called on all southerners in the
north to start leaving the region as soon as possible.
"We
the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s leadership
worldwide wish to sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum (AEF), Arewa Youths
and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying
about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate
of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British
in 1914," the
statement read.
"Biafrans
in general also wish to thank these vocal Northerners for at least having the
courtesy to issue advance warning this time before embarking on their routine
massacre of Igbos and other Biafrans living in Northern Nigeria; unlike what
their fathers did in 1966 when death, destruction and mayhem were unleashed
upon unsuspecting innocent civilian populations from the South comprising of
mostly Igbo men, women and children.
"Igbo
massacres in Northern Nigeria has occurred so many times that it has almost
become some sort of an annual sporting activity for blood thirsty Northern
youths. That is why we are particularly grateful to Arewa Youths and Elders for
having the decency to give us prior notice before the slaughter commences.
"We
promise to adhere to your warning to leave Northern Nigeria because a word is
enough for the wise. Biafrans and other Southerner should start packing their properties
to come down to the South. We also advice the Northern youths and their Elders
to keep it on because all they have done is exercise their right to free speech
which is not a crime under any law known to man. We are therefore against those
calling for the arrest of these Arewa Youths and their Elders.
"It
is abundantly evident from the genocidal statements coming from certain
influential segments of Northern Nigeria that the British socio-political
experimentation and economic fraud we know today as Nigeria, should not have
been created in the first place. IPOB is very much aware of the covert
blackmail and implied threat inherent in the utterances emanating from Islamic
Northern Nigeria.
"Furthermore,
the assumption that economic investments of Biafrans in the Northern part of
the contraption called Nigeria is an impediment to Biafra restoration project
is misguided and most definitely misplaced. This is cheap blackmail designed to
trigger rancour among Biafra populations because the North have always assumed
and wrongly too, that Igbos will place economic well being over and above their
life. This assumption is based on a false premise and one we are determined to
prove same as events unfold in the coming weeks and months.
"IPOB
under the divine leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the instrument Chukwu Okike
Abiama (God Almighty) is using to restore Biafra, therefore we are not afraid
of our enemies, neither will any threat or violence from any quarter deter us.
We remain peaceful in our noble quest to restore Biafra but we must caution
that we always retain the right as a people to defend ourselves should the need
arise.
"The
civilised world is aware that we IPOB have been adopting peaceful means to
restore Biafra since 2014. It is the Arewa Islamic Northern Nigeria dominated
Army, Police, Navy and Civil Defence that has brought torture, killings,
massacres and mayhem to communities and populations in the South. Till date,
nobody has been held to account despite the existence of a comprehensive Amnesty
International report to this effect.
"We
are aware that these Northern youths and their sponsors Britain, have perfected
plans to begin another round of killing of innocent people as the did in 1966.
We advise them not to make this mistake because Britain will no longer protect
Islamic Northern Nigeria because in this digital age, the world is watching.
Allow Biafrans time to relocate peacefully back to Bafraland, that is all we
ask."
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