Ohanaeze urges Igbo to defend themselves

Following the killing of some Igbo by the Boko Haram sect in the North, the apex Igbo cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged its compatriots to remain wherever they are and defend themselves and their property.  
In a statement by President of the organisation, Ralph Uwechue, Ohanaeze noted that this became necessary since the Federal Government has failed to check the menace of the sect.  
It said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo urges Igbo, who, over the years, have established national fruitful presence in different parts of Nigeria, to remain where they are in this country that belongs equally to all its citizens and organise appropriately and effectively to collectively defend themselves and property wherever they are while awaiting appropriate steps by the Federal and state governments as well as other bodies concerned to put an end to this calamitous phenomenon.”
The statement reads: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo has observed with rapidly mounting concern the alarming deterioration of security in the northern part of Nigeria involving the wanton serial destruction of innocent lives, especially of Ndigbo living in that part of the country.
“The recent call ascribed to Boko Haram elements that Christians and southerners should vacate the North and for Muslim northerners living in the South to return to the North has brought the crisis to a dangerous climax.
“When in 2011 the United Nations Building in Abuja was bombed with massive loss of lives, Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemned that dastardly act, as it did over others preceding it, and asked the Federal Government to take effective steps to stem the tide. However, in spite of government’s efforts, the only change has been for the worse.
“It is now clear that unpatriotic political and religious elements are bent on making our country ungovernable. Ohanaeze Ndigbo is convinced that enough is enough and while reiterating its urgent demand on the Federal Government to arrest this dangerous development capable of destroying this nation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo calls on Muslim leaders of our country to take immediate steps to rein in their hawks to prevent irreparable damage to the delicate ethno-religious harmony that all well-meaning Nigerians are strenuously striving to maintain.”

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