The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has reacted to the recent remark by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo against the Igbo secession bid, describing it as hypocritical attempt to fool the nation.
In a statement made available to Blueprint in Abuja Sunday, signed by its Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, CNG lamented the destruction of food items and livestock being transported to the South East, reiterating it will help in the actualisation of Biafra “for security to be restored in Nigeria.”
The statement reads: “It is no longer in doubt that the current violent agitations and disturbances over Biafra is clearly an agenda with a wholesome backing from every component of the Igbo community in Nigeria and in the Diaspora, including Ohanaeze.
“It is, therefore, the peak of hypocrisy for the Ohanaeze, at this point, to attempt to distance itself from the ongoing violence and crime against humanity, whereas it has been silent all the while Northerners living in the South-East are daily harassed, attacked, murdered in cold blood and their properties destroyed.
“As evidence of an agenda that has its root and pattern in our history, Ohanaeze was also silent in the face of the clear danger and threat against the country posed by the assortment of Igbo armed groups that attack the nation’s security assets and personnel and other democracy structures at will. We wonder where Ohanaeze was when in the last one week alone, three major incidences of arson and looting against properties belonging to Northern traders were perpetrated in the South-East.
“Their calumny became so glaring in the mischievous way they and all Igbo leaders deliberately remained silent when last weekend, a truck of onions with about 500 bags of the commodity was ransacked in Owerri. Around the same time, two trucks conveying palm oil from Enugu to Kano were intercepted and razed in Nsukka and another truck delivering livestock to Anambra was burnt down along with the animals it carried on the streets of Awka.
“The North will no longer remain passive under such deliberate and sustained attacks on its people, nor be disposed any longer to relating with the Igbo as federating partners and shall take every measure to realize Biafra so that the Igbo will leave and peace would reign again.”
