Kanu’s Parents’ Burial: We Will Not Tolerate Waste Of Any Igbo Blood- Ohanaeze Youth Council Tells FG, Police

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Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has charged Abia State commissioner of police, CP Ene Okon to desist from plot to launch any form of blood tasty operation as the remains of HRM Eze Israel O. Kanu and his wife, Ugoeze Sally Kanu, noting that bullets are reserved for terrorists and criminals not for defenseless people.

The President of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to call the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Ene Okon and his men to order over  the latter’s recent pronouncement against members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as their leader buries his parents.

Recall that CP Ene has restrained members of IPOB from attending the burial of Nnamdi Kanu’s parents, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Kanu on February 14, threatening to launch operation Elephant Dance.

In an interview he granted Sun newspapers, the Abia State Commissioner of Police vowed to disrupt and “scatter” the venue of the burial ceremony if Kanu’s followers dare venture into Umuahia or anywhere around the Afaraukwu community.

CP in that interview insisted that the police under him would launch Elephant Dance should IPOB members refuse to heed to his dictates.

In a press statement signed by Chukwuemeka Chimerue,
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC)
February 8, 2020, the group said warned that
Ndi Igbo would no longer sick and watch the Nigerian government brutally spill more blood of innocent youths.

The release reads in parts:

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“We in OYC, see this tough talk and boastful outburst from the Police boss in Abia as reopening the wounds of the Nigeria-Biafra war which was declared “no victor, no vanquish” by the then Nigerian military government. Okon’s deadly outbursts at this point, if not dragging Nigeria back to the repeat of the 1966 crisis, is capable of causing chaos and anarchy in the country”.

“As worrisome and shameful as this could be at this inglorious hour, we are compelled to advice Mr Okon that no reasonable security agency launches or deploys a crime fighting system where there is no crime”.

“Hence, any move to disrupt the burial or launch Operation Elephant Dance by the Nigeria Police Force would be solely viewed as an act of conventional war against Ndigbo, and we must resist it with anything within our reach”.

“OYC is reiterating that President Buhari should, as a matter of necessity, withdraw all the military troops and police personnel hovering around and over the Afaraukwu community to enable the bereaved bury their dead and accord their last respect to the late King and Queen. This is the least they could do as we do not see any need for provocative actions or statements promoting violence or tragedy at this time.

“It is unfortunate that the Nigerian police when asked to join the army to fight Boko Haram by the FG chickened out and protested that they are not trained to fight the armed terrorist group but they are spoiling for a war, a showdown to kill defenseless and unarmed youths at Afaraukwu, Umuahia”.

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“OYC urge the FG, Ene Okon to launch their Elephant Dance at Borno, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Gombe and other northern states where sleeping at nights has since become a nightmare as a result of activities of terrorists, including bandits and kidnappers”.

“OYC urges Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to sit-up on his responsibility as the chief security officer of the state to stop the massive killing of innocent Igbo youths during and after the burial”.

“OYC regretted that at a time Nigeria should be working towards redeeming its battered image vis-a-vis human rights abuses before the international communities, they are busy condescending a bit lower, losing sleep on trivialities. We are, therefore, compelled to ask: How much lower can Nigeria go from here”?

“Ndigbo would no longer watch with hands akimbo while the Nigerian security forces decimate defenseless youths, we would not go back to the villainous methods of the past and Nigeria will not find it easy if they release a single bullet or waste any Igbo blood in the name of Operation Elephant Dance or Python Dance. Bullets are reserved for terrorists and criminals not for defenseless people”.

“If Ndigbo would endure systemic marginalization, they would not and cannot endure killings of its defenseless brothers and sisters. The wounds of the civil war are ripe with all these actions coming from the government and its agencies, reminding us that Ndigbo are not part of Nigeria. Caution should be taken, lest we fall”, the group warned.

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