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Join our peace mission; Ohanaeze Ndigbo to IPOB, MASSOB, others

May 2, 2021

By Sophie Eze, Onitsha

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide under the leadership of Prof George Obiozor has appealed to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB(IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to join its peace process mission.

Other pro -Biafra groups, according to the apex Igbo socio-cultural Organisation, are Eastern Security Network (ESN), Biafra National Guard,BNG and Biafran Zionist Movement BZM, among others

In a statement on Sunday by Ohanaeze, National Publicity Secretary, Hon Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia, the essence was for safety of Ndigbo wherever they were

It said: “Ohanaeze calls on all organisations and associations operating in the South East of Nigeria and Igboland in general, including Eastern Security Network (ESN),MASSOB, Biafra National Guard, Biafran Zionists Movement, etc to join the peace process under the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Peace and Reconciliation Committee.

“The President General and Chairman of the committee, Amb.Prof. George A. Obiozor, said this was part of the resolutions of the reconciliation committee during its inaugural meeting at the Ohanaeze headquarters in Enugu on Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

“The committee which has started consultations with stakeholders and leaders across the region , the country and the Diaspora stated categorically that there is no substitute for peace.

“The ultimate objective of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and indeed every Igbo is to ensure peace, development, security and safety of Ndigbo wherever they are particularly in their homeland.

“Igbo everywhere should make every effort and contributions necessary to guarantee peace and security in Igboland.

“Any information ,suggestions, petitions,and documents that would facilitate the work of the committee should be channeled through the Secretary of the committee ,Barr Peter Aneke at the Ohanaeze National Secretariat, No 7 Park Avenue,GRA, Enugu.”

22 Northern Groups Ask UN, Others To Back Biafra Agitation

April 27, 2021

According to the group, Northern Nigeria has never experienced the present level of exposure to criminals and bandits under the régime of Buhari.

A coalition of 52 northern groups on Monday called on the global community to intervene in persuading the Nigerian government and United Nations to facilitate the final actualisation of the Biafran dream by the Igbo.

While describing as empty and of no effect “threats and promises” by President Muhammadu Buhari, the CNG said “between December 2020 and April 2021, over 970 students were abducted from their schools in the northern part of Nigeria with a substantial number still in captivity and some violently executed.”

Biafran flag

The spokesperson of CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, raised the views in a communiqué after an emergency meeting in Abuja.

According to him, Northern Nigeria has never experienced the present level of exposure to criminals and bandits under the régime of Buhari.

He said, “The CNG hereby resolves to call on our friends and the international community, the UK especially, to understand that our bilateral friendship is guided by the principles of sovereignty, promotion of peace and the standards that guide legitimate interference.

“Hence, their intervention, exclamations and actions should not be drawn to discountenance the effort of the Nigerian state to protect citizens from violence and terror.

“We finally wish to renew our request for the global community’s intervention in persuading Nigerian authorities and the United Nations to facilitate the final actualisation of the Biafran dream by the Igbo.

“The world should keep in mind that by far, a destabilised Nigeria will certainly threaten the peace and security of the entire sub-Saharan Africa.

“In the South, gangs of armed IPOB militia, violent secessionists and an assortment of militant groups appear to sense a huge vacuum in the capacity and political will by the Federal Government to challenge them, which they exploit with disastrous consequences on the nation’s security assets and specifically on northern communities and individuals living as minorities in the South while the presidency wallows in deflecting the issue.”

The CNG, however, attacked the Indigenous People of Biafra, saying it “is now taking a more ominous and repulsive form and context with an open declaration of violence and anarchy against other parts of Nigeria and the Nigerian State.”