Igbo leaders drag Arewa youths to ICC

Igbo leaders under the aegis of Alaigbo Development Foundation
(ADF), has dragged members of the Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) their
alleged sponsors and some Northern Sharia States government
officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer to
the quit notice issued on Igbos residing in the Northern parts of
the country.

According to the Igbo group, the legal action was aimed at
piling up judicial pressure to restrain the AYF and their sponsors
from executing the quit notice threat and take-over of property
owned by Ndigbo in the Arewa territories on the 1st of October.

In a statement issued in Abakaliki and signed by its President,
Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, the Secretary, Prof. Nath Aniekwu and the
Chairman, Media and Publicity Bureau, Chief Abia Onyike, the Igbo
leaders warned that any attack on any Igboman linked to the threat
by Arewa groups will be interpreted by Ndigbo as an announcement
for the final dissolution of the federation.

The statement reads: “ADF is assuring all that never again will
any Igbo or Biafran property be declared abandoned or confiscated
by an authority or group of persons in any part of the country. ADF
and Ndigbo will fight that in accordance with international laws
and conventions.

“ADF insists that the only thing that will convince Ndigbo and
Biafrans that the Federal Government is genuinely interested in
protecting our lives and property in the North is the immediate
enactment of a law by the National Assembly prohibiting
confiscation or declaration as abandoned, property of Ndigbo or any
Nigerian for that matter in any part of the federation before 1st
October 2017.”

Igbo leaders under the aegis of Alaigbo Development Foundation
(ADF), has dragged members of the Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) their
alleged sponsors and some Northern Sharia States government
officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer to
the quit notice issued on Igbos residing in the Northern parts of
the country.

According to the Igbo group, the legal action was aimed at
piling up judicial pressure to restrain the AYF and their sponsors
from executing the quit notice threat and take-over of property
owned by Ndigbo in the Arewa territories on the 1st of October.

In a statement issued in Abakaliki and signed by its President,
Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, the Secretary, Prof. Nath Aniekwu and the
Chairman, Media and Publicity Bureau, Chief Abia Onyike, the Igbo
leaders warned that any attack on any Igboman linked to the threat
by Arewa groups will be interpreted by Ndigbo as an announcement
for the final dissolution of the federation.

The statement reads: “ADF is assuring all that never again will
any Igbo or Biafran property be declared abandoned or confiscated
by an authority or group of persons in any part of the country. ADF
and Ndigbo will fight that in accordance with international laws
and conventions.

“ADF insists that the only thing that will convince Ndigbo and
Biafrans that the Federal Government is genuinely interested in
protecting our lives and property in the North is the immediate
enactment of a law by the National Assembly prohibiting
confiscation or declaration as abandoned, property of Ndigbo or any
Nigerian for that matter in any part of the federation before 1st
October 2017.”