Wike threatens to sack chiefs over expatriates’ abduction – TheNigerialawyer

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council on Saturday called on the
governors in the South-East to ensure the reformation of the
Bakassi Boys to safeguard the region.

The group lamented that herdsmen were terrorising the region
like they were doing in other parts of the country.

The President-General of the group, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said
this in a statement in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.

Recall that a press statement was alleged to have surfaced
online, claiming that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association
of Nigeria planned to attack the South-East governors and their
people.

But the Chairman of MACBAN in the zone, Gidado Siddiki, said the
purported statement emanated from mischiefmakers and not his
members, adding that the group maintained a cordial relationship
with the South-East governors and their people.

The OYC called on the leadership of the incoming Houses of
Assembly in Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states, including Anambra,
to immediately enact laws for the establishment of special
vigilance groups to protect boundaries in Igboland.

The statement read in part, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council
Worldwide which has silently studied the recent threat of genocidal
ethnic cleansing by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of
Nigeria against the people of the South East for ‘their alleged
stubbornness’ and subsequently the denial of Gidado Siddiki for his
apologies and explanations to our people.

“The apologies are dead on arrival as it’s a diversionary tactic
to take the people of South-East unawares to douse the already
soaked tension emanating from the leaked alleged statement.

“We will not take laws into our hands to fight back, but rather
as a matter of urgency, we call for the quick return of dreaded
Bakassi Boys with special mandate to engage the armed herdsmen or
the establishment of fierce and vibrant vigilant groups.

“We call on the incoming leadership of Houses of Assembly in
Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States, and in Anambra to proceed
without delay to enact laws to establish local vigilante groups
with special mandate to protect our boundaries and fish out armed
herdsmen.”

Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra has alleged that
there was a grand plan by Fulani herdsmen to overrun many parts of
the country.

The group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated
this in a statement on Saturday.

The statement read in part, “Middle Belt nationalities, Yoruba
groups and northern Christians are advised not to relent in the
collective effort to stop this latest attempt to attack many.’’

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