Ohanaeze condemns burning down of IPOB lawyer’s house – TheNigerialawyer

The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo,
has condemned the recent police attack and burning down of the
residence of the IPOB lawyer, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor.

In a release by the Media Adviser to the President General,
Chief Emeka Attamah, the apex Igbo cultural organization called for
a judicial inquiry into this case of unprovoked attack on a
law-abiding citizen of the country whose only crime is that he
peacefully objects to the maltreatment of his people.

It said that Ohanaeze Ndigbo observed that the spurious claim by
the police that Ejiofor was “involved in a case of abduction,
assault occasioning harm and malicious damage to property” holds no
water as nobody was mentioned as the victim of the allegations.

It said that “assuming without conceding that Barrister Ejiofor
was culpable on a charge of abduction, the only option in law
available to the police is arrest and prosecution under the laws of
Nigeria and not deliberate arson and wanton destruction of his
family home.”

Ohanaeze Ndigbo further stated that even before its wrongful
proscribing, IPOB had never been a violent group and could not have
summoned enough force to attack and kill any policemen to warrant
drafting in a reinforcement.

The release frowned at the situation where any mild expression
of dissent against the manifest injustice being perpetrated against
a particular ethnic group in the country will be met with maximum
force by the Federal Government.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo called for a halt to the apparent and incessant
physical, economic and political harassment of Ndigbo in a country
watered with their blood and who have striven to keep and grow the
country with their presence in all nooks and crannies of
Nigeria.