Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) worldwide weekend, advised coalition of northern youths to obey federal government on the suspension of Ruga settlement and stop issuing threat.
The group which condemned the 30-days ultimatum given to the federal government and governors to implement the suspended Ruga settlement policy or they will sack Igbo resident in the North and establish the settlements across the nation, said “the ultimatum was a declaration of war against the Igbo living across the Northern part of the country.”
OYC also warned that the peaceful approach they adopted in the issues concerning the nation should not be misconstrued to be weakness.
In a statement issued in Abakaliki by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro,President General, the Igbo group vowed that “it will explore all peaceful avenues for protection of lives and properties of the Igbo resident in the North.”
“We studied and weighed the implications of the recent threat and 30days ultimatum from a northern group named ‘Coalition of Northern groups’ over the suspension of Ruga settlement by Presidency, and there have been unnecessary tension in the Southern Nigeria especially Igbos emanating from the threat of these Northern group.
“We are fully aware that these recent threat are targeted only to the lives and Properties of Peaceful Nigerians of Igbo extraction doing businesses in 19 Northern States, and this is a declaration of War against the Igbos.
“We will not fail to explore all peaceful avenues for the Protection of lives and properties of Igbos living in the 19 Northern states, but our peaceful approach should not be understood as weakness as there are other options open to us over the recent threat, but we will legitimately pursue peaceful ways to avert this imminent mayhem and genocidal ethnic cleansing against Igbos in the North.
