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  • Release Eze Igbo now – Igbo Youths tells DSS

    Release Eze Igbo now – Igbo Youths tells DSS

    Following Eze Fredrick Nwajagu, Eze Igbo’s arrest on Saturday by the operatives of the Department of State Services, (DSS) the Igbo youths known as the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL) have demanded his immediate release.

    Recall that the DSS arrested Nwajagu for threatening in a viral video on Saturday to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to help protect Ndigbo living in Lagos and their property against attacks by hoodlums.

    However,  (COSEYL) in a statement by its President General, Goodluck Ibem, said DSS and the Nigeria Police had left the real problem to chase shadows.

    Ibem wondered why the Police and DSS did not go after MC Oluomo, who intimidated Igbos during last Month’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

    He lamented that when alleged attacks were meted on the Igbos in Lagos during March 18 elections, DSS and Police lost their steam but suddenly got it back after Nwajagu’s comment.

    According to them, Nwajagu’s comment came due to the continued silence of security operatives despite the alleged attack on Igbos in Lagos.

    The group warned that security operatives should not maltreat Igbos in Lagos.

    “The same police and DSS that arrested Eze Fredrick Nwajagu and other innocent Igbos, what did they do when thugs were killing and attacking Igbos and their properties in Lagos during and after the general elections? The answer is nothing”, the statement reads in part.

    Eze Fredrick Nwajagu is the Eze Igbo in Ajao Estate in Lagos.

  • Sokoto State Riot: Igbo youth group hints on reprisal attack

    Sokoto State Riot: Igbo youth group hints on reprisal attack

    The apex apex socio-political youth group in the South East, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL) has frowned at the attacks on Igbos and their properties in Sokoto state,TheNewsGuru.com can confirm.

    COSEYL has hinted on reprisal attacks on Sokoto indigenes living in the South if they do not put a stop to the wanton destruction of lives and properties.

    Recall that there was pandemonium on the streets of Sokoto by irate youths who felt aggrieved and also getting violent over the arrest of two suspected killers of Deborah Samuel a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education.

    Deborah Samuel was alleged to have insulted Prophet Mohammed (SAW) through a message she sent on her class’ WhatsApp group

     

    After outcries across the country condemning the incident, some of the perpetrators were arrested by the state’s police command.

    Angered by the arrest, a large number of Muslim youths stormed several streets destroying churches and shops belonging to Igbos.

    In reaction to the destruction of shops and properties, COSEYL via a statement made available to pressmen warned that there could be a reprisal attack if the attacks on Igbos and their properties do not stop.

    The statement reads, “These attacks on law-abiding and innocent Igbo businessmen who have done nothing wrong to warrant such vicious and barbaric attack on them is uncalled for and we condemn it in its entirety.

    “We warn the Sokoto indigenes to stop the attack and destruction of Igbo properties and goods forthwith. We want these miscreants to know that nobody has the monopoly of violence, they should stop or else, they will see us soon.

    “The same way Igbos are living in Sokoto doing their legitimate business is also the same way Sokoto indigenes are living in the South doing their business”.

    The coalition called on the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal to immediately arrest and prosecute those involved in the destruction of Igbo properties and churches.