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Igbo Union in US hits South East governors – The Sun Nigeria

Magnus Eze, Enugu

The Igbo Union, an organisation of residents and residents of Igbo extraction registered within the State of California, United States of America, have instructed governors of the South East states that historical past could be unkind to them, in the event that they failed to guard their ancestral land.

The group additionally urged the governors to reject any neighborhood policing mannequin prescribed by the Inspector-Normal of Police, Mohammed Adamu, noting that it might quantity to unwittingly handing over safety of the area to their enemies. Relatively, they urged the governors to take a cue from the Yoruba of the South West and mannequin the safety association of the area towards the Amotekun outfit.

In a letter dated Could 30, 2020, to the 5 South East governors and copied governors of Delta and Rivers states, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and archbishops of Roman Catholic and Anglican Communion within the area, the Igbo Union expressed concern over what it referred to as the insensitivity of the state chief executives to the menace and terrorisation of Igbo by suspected Fulani herdsmen roaming the villages with their cattle and AK-47 rifles.

The letter, signed by the coordinator, Ikechukwu Orji, secretary-general, Matthew Ohanele, and director, diplomacy and outreach, Dr. Ray Chimezie, amongst others, subsequently, charged the governors to liaise with the assorted state Homes of Meeting and guarantee fast enactment of anti-open grazing legal guidelines of their states.

The Igbo group stated: “There are many unanswered questions on your response to the inflow of Fulani militia into Igboland, which skyrocketed in the course of the lockdown. It’s a truth of historical past that the Fulani imagine in conquering different ethnicities and inhabiting their land. Clearly, the Fulani don’t imagine in ‘reside and let reside’ because the Igbo.

“They’re sworn enemies of Ndi Igbo and need to take over Igboland because the inheritance of their forefathers. They need to pressure us to grow to be Moslems. They imagine in whole and full domination and enslavement of others as captives or topics. Their leaders have referred to Igboland as conquered territory, and they’re decided to take it as they’ve finished in lots of elements of Benue, Plateau, and different non-Islamic states in northern Nigeria.

“Fashionable opinions and anecdotal sources appear to recommend that the governors within the South East are compromised and dealing within the curiosity of the ruling Islamic cabals somewhat than their states. Proof that appear to help this allegation embrace the over 360 Fulani settlements in varied forests in Igboland, your failure to answer Fulani threats in Igbo villages, lopsided compensation of Fulani for cattle loss with out doing identical to affected Igbo folks or villages, endorsing Fulani land-grab in Igboland by failing to enact anti-grazing legislation as was finished in states like Benue.

“The Igbo Union desires to make it clear to Igbo governors that we object to using the template structured by the IGP. To develop the South East safety community utilizing the template of the particular person or individuals masterminding terrorism and planning genocide in Igboland is preposterous. It falls wanting what Ndi Igbo stand for or symbolize.”


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