Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the Apex-Igbo socio-cultural group has said over 500 Igbos have been killed by security agents.
This is as it also condemned the refusal of Northern elders to speak against the continued marginalisation of Igbo people.
Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General of Ohabaeze in a statement on Tuesday also condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s dot-in-a circle comment.
Buhari had during an interview on Arise TV last Thursday threatened that his government would mobilise the military and the police to wipe out the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Buhari’s administration accused the group of disturbing the peace in the South-East region, accusations the group denied.
However, Ohanaeze described the President’s statement as disastrous, adding that ‘no damage control or image laundering will assuage this collective assault on Ndigbo’.
According to Ohaneze, the silence of Northern leaders is proof that they are happy over Buhari’s marginalization of Southeastern Nigeria.
Isiguzoro noted that Igbo people are emergency experts in all situations and will be a dot in the circle that will swallow nepotistic anarchists and anti-Igbo exponents.
He said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide had charged the leadership of the North to speak out against discrimination against Igbos and divisiveness being created by disastrous declarations of President Muhammadu Buhari describing how the southeast is landlocked and no damage control or image laundering will assuage this collective assault on Ndigbo.
“It appears that there are chains of crafted skirmish programmed to either aggravate the traumas of Ndigbo or remind them of the sordid past a few years ago, and with ‘a dot in a circle’ slogan that was used to pulverize Igbos during the Biafra war that left 3 million people dead, especially women and children. Right now in 160 days, 513 Igbos had been killed, 2,436 arrested and 854 missing in the ongoing ‘imported’ insecurity challenges in the southeast.
“The ‘dot in the circle’ is a new signal to point out that Ndigbo are surrounded or should be taught in the language they should understand, but the fact remains that, the silence of Northern leaders shows that they are happy over the position of President Buhari on Southeastern Nigeria. We have seen the direction of events and Igbos are not noisy anymore, we are emergency experts in all situations, ‘a dot in a circle’ remains the Bermuda triangular point that will swallow nepotistic anarchists and anti-Igbo exponents.”
