Concerned Youths of Niger Delta
(CYND) have given a seven-day ultimatum to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
to apologize to the Minister of Transportation, Chief Chibuike Amaechi, over
the group’s recent attack on him in Madrid, Spain.
Amaechi was attacked by a group
of IPOB members in Madrid, while attending a climate change conference in the
country.
Similarly, this happened months
after the former Senate Deputy President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, was attacked
in Germany.
Confirming the incident, Amaechi
said: “I was attacked by a few misguided Nigerians while on national assignment
at a climate change event in Madrid, Spain. They were quickly repelled by the
Spanish Police before they could do any harm. I am fine, I was not hurt. Thanks
for your support and prayers”.
However, the youths drawn from
the core six Niger Delta states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Cross
River and Edo, described the attack as “national embarrassments,” and
threatened to destroy Igbo properties especially in Ikwere dominated areas of
Rivers State.
Speaking to newsmen at the end of
their emergency meeting on the matter in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital at
the weekend, the National Coordinator of the group, Commander Chikaru Oronda
Ndamati, warned IPOB against venting their anger on Amaechi and other national
leaders over their personal grievances.
His words, “The IPOB should
remember that all the Igbos in South-South have and do businesses in Rivers
state particularly in Ikwere land, which happens to be Mr. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi’s ethnic nationality.
“We are going to destroy all the
Igbo properties in Ikwere land and Niger Delta if they try it again. Ikwere
ethnic nationality has four Local Government Areas in Rivers state including
Port Harcourt City, Obio Akpor, Emohua and Ikwere Echie Local Governments.
“Having accepted the
responsibility of the attack on Amaechi in Spain, IPOB should also be ready to
take full responsibility for any reaction that will come out from their
dastardly act if IPOB fails to tender apology within seven days.”
Other youths’ leaders who signed
the communiqué at the end of the meeting include state coordinators Comrade
Effiong Abang (Akwa Ibom); Hon. Ubong Stephens (Cross River); General Mike
Gibson Saware (Bayelsa); Comrade Clement Okarevu (Delta and Comrade Nosa Momoh
(Edo).
The group, therefore, urged the
Federal Government “to take the matter before the international community to
compel world leaders to always beef up security around Nigerian leaders on
foreign trips”.
Besides, the youths asked the
presidency to impress on the Spanish authorities to extradite those arrested
for such securities breach in Spain for trial in Nigeria.
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