The Igbos for Nigeria Movement
[INM] has called on the foremost Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze
Ndigbo and Igbo leaders to apologize to the military for their earlier acts of
silence, indifference, collusion and passive support that allowed the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to metamorphosed into a full blown terror
group.
The group said, IPOB leader,
Nnamdi Kanu succeeded in hijacking the Igbo agitation for fairness to incite
hatred across the land.
Reacting to a visit to Gombe
state on a peace mission by Ohaneze’s President General, Chief John Nwodo and
other Igbo leaders, Igbos for Nigeria Movement expressed relief that the period
when the organization and Igbo leaders played politics with what is ordinarily
a nationwide quest for a better deal is over.
According to the group, some top
members of Ohaneze and Igbo political leaders that had banked on using IPOB and
Kanu to score political points soon discovered that they were as much the
victims of a terror infrastructure but had become too ashamed to accept their
sins and dilemma until the launch of Operation Python Dance II, which some of
them still kicked against out of habit.
The movement in a statement by
its national leader, Mazi Igwe Ifeanyi, assured that the same people that were
supporting IPOB, even when they were hostages, are today relishing the freedom
procured for them through the success recorded by Operation Python Dance II,
which has empowered them to again grow the courage to visit the same people
that Kanu had vilified without them censuring him.
He said, “The least Ohaneze,
Chief Nwodo and other Igbo leaders can do is to retract their past statements
on the Operation Python Dance II and to encourage troops to root out other
evils that have made Igboland into a place that other Nigerians avoid as a
place to settle down. According to the group, the ill conceived quit notice to
Igbos by some northern youths had exposed how groups like IPOB placed Igbos at
a disadvantage because Igbos settle in other parts of the country in large
numbers while only few persons of other ethnic groups make Igboland their homes
because of attitudes like the one exhibited by Kanu.
“Going forward, the expectation
is that Ohaneze and any one that genuinely calls himself a leader in Igboland
must now put the interest of Igbo people above their personal interest and this
includes accepting that IPOB was a monster that was set to consume the genuine
cause which every Igbo man had vigorously pursued in the past.
“Had the military not stopped
IPOB and Kanu, the path they were threading was on the verge of making Igbos
lose what they had toiled to build in other parts of Nigeria in the past five
decades given the way they needlessly antagonized other ethnic groups,
including calling for their death.”
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How much were you paid for for this statement? Igbos will remain who they are by the time you exhaust the money you received. Nobody has any apologies to the patched up military that can't defeat Boko Haram are internationally defined terrorists. It's the said military that must apologise to the people of South-East for embarrassing them. We're here today; there maybe 'us' or others tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteApology? You guys are kidding.
ReplyDeleteShameless Igbo man. IPOB remains formidable Igbo gropu with genuine objectives of protecting interest of ndi Igbo. Our resolve can not be broken by Nigeria government attempt to isolate the group.
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