This was contained in a statement released by IPOB spokespersons, Emma Mmezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya.
A herdsman(ThisDay Newspaper)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that the North’s claim that Fulani herdsmen are being killed in the South East is false.
This was contained in a statement released by IPOB spokespersons, Emma Mmezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya, Vanguard reports.
The statement reads:
50
years ago, faceless groups sprung up in Zaria, Kaduna, and Kano among
others; all alleging that the January 1966 coup d’état was an ethnic
coup. Northerners, they claimed, were being killed in the East.
These
sponsored groups, stoked the embers of hatred and prepared the ground
for the horrendous pogrom of May 29; June 2; July 29; August 2;
September 29 and October 2, 1966 respectively in which thousands of
Easterners mostly women and children, were systematically slaughtered
all over the northern Nigeria.
Those faceless
groups, that prepared the grounds for the unprecedented genocide,
quickly disappeared into thin air. In 2016, another faceless group,
Northern Consensus Movement, which claims to be a coalition of northern
groups, even though only the Miyetti Allah turned out the only
recognizable group among obviously fake others, alleged that hundreds of
Northerners are being killed in the south east, and went on to advise
the Federal Government to treat IPOB the way it treated Boko Haram.
It
is instructive, that the entire south west based media houses have
never noted any attacks on Northerners in the South East. It is also
surprising that these false allegations are coming only from President
Buhari’s own organization, Miyetti Allah.
It is
also quite interesting to note that no Nigerian has heard of any attack
of northerners in the South East, except this strange coalition. They
did not give date, instance or town in the South East where in their own
words, hundreds of innocent law abiding citizens of northern extraction
living in the south eastern part have been killed in cold blood; with
their businesses and properties destroyed.
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