Junaid Mohammed, a lawmaker in
the second republic, has accused some leaders of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba
socio-political group, of making provocative statements.
In an interview with Independent
Newspaper, he said the Yoruba leaders learnt no lesson from the Biafran war.
At least 2 million people
reportedly lost their lives in the Biafran war which took place between July
1967 and January 1970.
Stakeholders in the south-west
have recently raised the alarm over the high level of insecurity in the region.
Gani Adams, aare onakakanfo of
Yorubaland, while reacting to the killing of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of
Reuben Fasoranti, leader of Afenifere, had said the Yoruba ethnic group should
not be blamed if it decides to react to the killings in the region.
But Junaid described some of the
Yoruba leaders as “noisemakers” who will be the first to flee if war breaks
out.
“We have to be very careful and
mind our utterances. It is easy to start a war but it is not easy to stop it,”
he said.
“We all saw what happened during
the Biafran war even though a lot of people who went through that experience
have not learnt anything like some of the leaders of Afenifere. They have been
making provocative statements in recent times.
“People’s lives are determined
partly by their culture. These people are noisemakers and if there is war
today, they will run away because most of them have houses outside the country.
They make big, big noise but some of the real fighters who will fight until
death don’t even talk about it.
“We shouldn’t allow these lousy
people to lead us to war. War is not good. I want Nigerians to be careful
because if the chips are down, these people will not be available to fight.
They are calling for war, let the war starts and we will see who will run first.”
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