.The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo
worldwide, says that nobody can declare a state of emergency in Anambra because
of the recent insecurity in the state.
Ohanaeze spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, who stated this while
reacting to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami’s
insinuation that the Federal Government will declare a state of emergency in
Anambra State because of recent killings, said that what is happening in
northern states was much more and the Federal Government had not declared a
state of emergency there.
Ohanaeze said though there was crisis of insecurity in the
South East, instead of the Justice Minister to proffer how the security
operatives could counter it and stop the situation, he was contemplating state
of emergency, describing it as “funny and embarrassing to Ndigbo.”
“Looking at it from genuine point of view, you will see that
we have had more killings in Borno, Yobe, Plateau, Benue, Katsina, Niger and
even in Kaduna State. He will be there they count their killings in scores and
in hundreds, this one in Anambra is just a few persons and somebody is
contemplating state of emergency. When they were being killed in hundreds yet
elections were held in all those states and now we have a few killings you are
contemplating state of emergency.
“Dr. Akunyili was killed about five days ago and as first
step you are talking of an emergency. This one, instead of thinking of how to
contain and counter such gruesome killings, the first suggestion that come from
an Attorney General is State of emergency. Above all Ohanaeze had already known
even before now that we are in doubt if some of the crimes being committed
here, is our boys really have the strategic capacity to commit them.
“Like going to police
station discharge all the people in the station and burn it, going to prison
yard discharge over 1,000 inmates and no persons caught. Some of these things
we begin to wonder whether our people have the strategic capacity to commit
these crimes and go undetected.
“So this development is very strange and is coming at a
point where every person is thinking that is time for Igbo to produce president
of Nigeria. We are looking at that people are trying to disarticulate the South
East, create a false impression that they are not in unity, they are
ungovernable, they are in crisis and to that extent they cannot produce a
president for Nigeria. All these things we are thinking about but we will
disappoint them,” Ogbonnia said.
Ohanaeze spokesman disclosed that the South East leaders had
devised means to counter the impression, adding, “We have appealed to our
Archbishops and Bishops and traditional rulers, and Town Union President
Generals to start engaging the youth so that we will disappoint them by making
sure that Anambra and other states become calm. And being calm, we will
disappoint them by holding election peacefully in Anambra.”
So those who say that they want to make South East
ungovernable will soon be disappointed, “because we are wiser.”
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