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Quit Notice: Igbo Ekunie Urges Kinsmen To Vacate North

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7 years ago

August 28, 2017

BODWEY

A body of professionals in Nigeria and the Diaspora of Igbo Origin, Igbo Ekunie has urged its kinsmen and Christians to with immediate effect vacate the Northern Region of the country.

This the group said would make it heave a sigh of relief and water down threats by some Arewa Youths on Igbo Youths to leave the North before October 1.

A statement by Maazi Tochukwu Ezeoke, President and Secretary, Lawrence Nwobu, Igbo Ekunie said the purported suspension of the quit notice is a deceit, noting that the campaign is still alive.

It said the suspension is not true and should be investigated as the region is known as a discreet “war zone.”

The statement said “Ordinarily, it would not be our desire to join issues with a band of ignorant and hypocritical hoodlums who have ignored the destitution, strife and ongoing civil war/terrorism in the North to concern themselves with IPOB and other nonviolent democratic protests elsewhere.

“However, we note that hate crimes/mass killings/genocide and other expressions of intolerance, hate, and war against other ethnic and religious groups by Hausa-Fulani’s started in the North as far back as 1945. The region has since then been a perpetual war/genocide zone where mass killings aided and abetted by all strata of Northern leadership has been actively condoned.

“We note that the North having adopted the obnoxious, inhumane and barbaric culture of mass killing has often and routinely deployed the killing of other ethnoreligious groups as a political strategy to intimidate and terrorize other Nigerians. In this, we see no end.”

Igbo Ekunie while declaring the core North as a war zone urged the Buhari administration to conduct a referendum to know whether the country will remain one in the face of hate speeches generated across the country.

The statement continued “That notwithstanding the purported suspension of infamous quit notice by Arewa hate mongers/hoodlums; we urge all Southerners and Christians to begin to think of permanently quit the Northwest and Northeast as there is no possible end to the decade’s long institutional hate killings.

“That all Southerners and Christians should begin a process of disposing of their investments in the said conflict/genocide zones and correspondingly cease any new investments.

“That though we acknowledge constitutional provisions and the universality of residency rights as provided for by international law and other such instruments, we submit that unique exception must be made in the case of Northern Nigeria is the only place in the world where fellow citizens have faced institutional mass killings/genocide since 1945.

Igbo Ekunie concluded “Taking cognizance of the ever increasing crisis of nationhood, we in closing; urge the federal government to organize a referendum where all component units will choose if they want to remain in Nigeria or not, and where they will collectively decide on how they want to be governed.”