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BIAFRA SIT-AT-HOME: Ohanaeze warns Osinbajo, police

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Following threats by Nigeria security forces over the May 30 sit-at-home declared by agitators of Biafra in the eastern part of the country, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has vowed never to accept the killing of any Igbo man.

The group said it will hold Acting President Yemi Osinbajo responsible should Nigerian security operatives shoot or kill any un-armed pro-Biafra agitator on May 30.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and other groups in the South-East demanding for separation from Nigeria had declared May 30, a sit-at-home to honour those killed during the Nigerian Civil war and those killed during the groups’ peaceful protests.

The move was however not welcomed by the Nigeria police, as the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered security operatives to deal with the agitators should they insists on the sit-at-home protest.

But in its reaction, the youth wing of Ohanaeze, an Igbo umbrella body, in a press statement made available to newsmen by its deputy national president and the national secretary, Dr. Arthur Obiora and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, respectively, warned against the killing of any Igbo man during the proposed protest and vowed to hold Osinbajo responsible in such eventuality.

Part of the statement read, “Ndigbo shall hold Osinbajo responsible as the Acting President of Nigeria should anything happen to any of our youths.

“We shall not take lightly the spilling of the blood of any Igbo man today because these are non-violent agitators and their agitation is protected under every known law.

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“As a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo is very much aware of the constitutional rights of these agitators and he should therefore not allow himself to be used as an instrument to suppress lawful expression of opinion.

“He should, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria call all security agencies to order to ensure that they do not engage in mass murder. We have had enough of this mindless killing of our people and we are not going to take it again this time.”

The group then called on Igbo traders and workers to comply with the sit-at-home order because “the international community is watching, admonishing that “if we can show unity as a people, if we can show solidarity with Nnamdi Kanu and Uchenna Madu, the leaders of the IPOB and MASSOB, respectively, the United Nations and other international organizations will not just accord us respect but help us in pushing for a referendum.”

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