A leading Igbo socio-cultural group, the Association of Southeast Town Union (ASETU), described the protests against SARS by Nigerian youth and the resulting loss of life as the civil war of 30 months between Nigeria and Biafra
The group, in a press release signed by its national president, Emeka Diwe and national secretary, Gideon Adikwuru and made available to journalists on Saturday, accused the federal government of stoking the embers of war for failing to not addressing young people properly and offering lasting solutions to their problems
He further described as satanic, barbaric, ignorant, divisive and unpatriotic, any plot to stop the unleashed young people who genuinely campaign for good governance
According to the press release, « any attempt to mobilize the rest of Nigeria to impose carnage and genocide on the whole of Igbo is unacceptable. We are all too familiar with this scenario that certain enemies of the country are preparing to play » / p>
« The catastrophe that befell our people following the military coup of January 1966, which culminated in the genocidal 30 month civil war, began exactly this way.
“A coup d’etat initially described as patriotic and revolutionary, planned and executed by soldiers from the four regions of the country at the time, was then called an ‘Igbo coup’, and more three million Igbos were ruthlessly slaughtered while it lasted
« The government must act quickly to get those implicated in the killing of unarmed protesters in Lekki and other parts of the country to reserve those behind the Igbo business fire worth billion naira in the Apo region in Abuja, Sabon Gari in Kano and other parts of the country must be immediately arrested and confronted with the music
« We must start tackling the immediate and distant causes of the unrest rather than playing the gallery
« We cannot claim to be a federation where an ethnic nationality is imposed on the rest of the country
« We finally call on the attention of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and the African Union to stand up against this negative stereotype of Igbo in the current turmoil of young Nigerians in favor of reforms »
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SOURCE: https://www.w24news.com
