The Executive Secretary, Nigerian National Summit Group, NNSG, Mr. Tony Uranta has said the recent threat from the coalition of Northern groups ordering Igbos out of the region is an act of treason and should not be handled flimsily by the Federal Government and relevant security agencies.
Uranta argued that since Nnamdi Kanu was also treated and charged with treasonable offence by the federal government during his agitation for Biafra Republic, the people behind the threats to the Igbos should also be arrested and made to face same persecution as Nnamdi Kanu. He noted that doing anything shorter than this will amount to taking sides by the federal government.
Uranta revealed this in a statement he signed and released on Friday.
The statement reads:
“Although some of the signatories have been comrades seeking Justice in a Restructured Nigeria, I am shocked by, and outraged at, this brazen and public act of treason, that could, at the very least, trigger a pogrom against all non-Northern Nigerian; and, at worst, throw Nigeria into a Civil War! We must never forget how the 1966 pogrom in the North eventually threw Nigeria into the costly Civil War that lasted for 30months. Nor, can we deny the avoidable calamities it has wrought on our Country since the war ended.
Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB never created terror on this level, yet he spent so long in detention charged with treason against the nation. These youths and elders who are definitely trying to whip up hate and violence in millions of otherwise peaceful Northerners must be seen in the same light that Kanu was by the Federal Government. This is NOT a case of treason against Kaduna State; it is a case of terrorism expressly promised…a threat to the very survival of Nigeria.
All leaders that publicly support the “Igbos-must-leave” stand, be they young or old, must be quickly arrested, fully investigated and lawfully prosecuted! Anything less than that will be seen as nepotistic favouritism premised on base ethnic sentiments. Let the courts determine who is culpable of what…but, let Nigerians not have the perception that there are limits to their rights as citizens.
Remember that not even foreign Fulani Herdsmen terrorists have been denied entry, to date, even into areas where they have butchered and raped thousands of law-abiding innocent Nigerians nationwide,” Uranta said.
