Some respected Igbo elders who operate under the aegis of Conference of Concerned Igbo Elders for Peace and National Unity, has criticized the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for recent attacks on police station in Abia State, which resulted in the death of two officers and burning of the station.
According to the Igbo Group, IPOB is gradually over stretching its luck by taking its struggle too far, engaging in indiscriminate destruction of lives and property.
They called on relevant authorities to deal decisively with the separatist group, insisting that the current level of force being deployed may not be enough to curb their violent excesses.
According to the elders, decisive force was required at this time, considering recent events, which suggest that IPOB was determined to undermine security and peace in the South East, which is an integral part of the country.
To buttress their point, the Igbo elders drew interest to the attack on protection operatives inside the Orlu council of Imo State, warning that the proscribed institution may additionally in all likelihood perform greater bold assaults, unless pressing movement became taken to discourage them.
Recall that accusing hands have pointed to IPOB as being at the back of Tuesday’s attack on Abayi police station in Aba, Osisioma Ngwa neighborhood council of Abia State, which resulted inside the dying of two law enforcement officials and burning of the station.
While condemning the violent campaigns of participants of the separatist institution, the elders known as on Igbo sons and daughters at domestic and within the diaspora,to dissociate themselves from the institution, that allows you to sending a strong message across, that IPOB does no longer constitute the perspectives of Ndigbo.
They reminded the general public that the IPOB remained a “terrorist company”, having regard to an order of a federal excessive court docket in Abuja, which proscribed its sports, at the example of a request by way of the federal government.
In a statement on Friday, which become at the same time signed with the aid of its National President, Mazi Prof William Okocha,and National Secretary, Barr Miss Irene Chizoba, the group threw its weight behind the call by Ohanaeze Ndigbo for a assessment of the current appointment of Service Chiefs through President Muhammadu Buhari.
While harping on the software of federal character principle in making sensitive appointments, the concerned Igbo elders decried what they taken into consideration changed into developing exclusion of the South East in national affairs.
The announcement reads in component: “We use this opportunity to name on the navy and other involved authorities to convey the whole weight of the regulation to undergo on the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, in a way with the intention to ensure the recuperation of permanent peace and order to the South East vicinity.
“As reputable elders devoted to national team spirit, peace and concord, we rise in condemnation of the violent sports of IPOB, which we hasten to note, aren't a illustration of the Igbo.
“Ndigbo are peace-loving and peace-constructing humans, whose dedication to the national motive is irrevocable, irrespective of the negative dispositions of some deviants, who have constituted themselves into cogs within the wheel of progress.
“Now is, consequently, the time for all well-that means Igbo sons and daughters, to sentence the depraved sports of IPOB, to drive domestic the factor that they do not have our endorsement – tacit or open.
“How long lets permit IPOB to lead this marketing campaign of destruction towards our collective will, before we upward thrust towards them with all our may and strength?
“While the dirt raised by means of their assault on safety operatives within Orlu and its environs become but to settle, we awakened on Tuesday to witness the senseless attack on Abayi police station in Aba, Osisioma Ngwa neighborhood council of Abia State, which claimed the lives of two officers.
“Apart from IPOB, we also want to elevate severe worries over the continued exclusion of our zone from countrywide issues, the contemporary being the non-attention of any army officer of Igbo extraction for appointment as Service Chief.
“The Conference of Concerned Igbo Elders for Peace and National Unity observes that this fashion has been amplified beneath the contemporary management inside the united states”.
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