The Biafra Shadow Government,
BSG, has called on the United Nations, UN, to hold the Northern youths responsible
for any break down of law and order in Nigeria, come October 1.
BSG made the call in a petition
to the world body ahead of the October 1 quit notice by a coalition of Northern
youths, asking Igbos to vacate their region.
In the petitioned titled:
“Provocative and malicious unchecked utterances and publications by Arewa
youths and their sponsors” and signed by one Chile Nwoko, the body said its
letter was a response to the “misguided one-cum-publication by Arewa youths to
the UN.”
The body stated that Igbos are
indigenous in over 12 states in Nigeria, adding that no group, including the
Indigenous People’s of Biafra, IPOB, and the Government of Biafra, was waging
war within the country.
Stressing that Biafra has never
been an only Igbo affair either in 1966 or even now as alleged by the Arewa
youths, the body, however, noted that self-defence is the first law of nature.
Nwoko said: “We wish to remind
the Arewa youths that the pogrom of 1966 was not only the Igbo but any
southerner not from Yoruba”, adding that “it is on record that in Arewa
killing fields, they included the Idoma and Igala whom they claimed to be
Arewa, as part of the Igbo.
“Biafrans want a referendum to
decide their stay in Nigeria but the Arewa should be informed that it is not by
their terms, but as Biafrans so wish and desire, as directed and supervised by
the UN.”
The body appealed to the UN and
the international community to hold the Arewa responsible for any, “escalation
of the present situation,” adding that, “Biafrans have maintained a non-violent
approach in their self-determination quest.”
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