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General News of Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Buhari's administration has killed 513 Igbos, arrested 2,436, left 854 missing in 160 days - Ohanaeze Ndigbo

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The primary Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has chastised Northern elders for failing to speak out against Igbo people's alleged ongoing marginalization.

In a statement issued on Tuesday by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the organization lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari's dot-in-a-circle comment addressed at Igbo people.

Buhari announced last Thursday that his administration would mobilize the military and police to pursue the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who are accused of disrupting regional peace.

He asserted that IPOB is "just like a dot in a circle," with nowhere to go. They are spread out over the globe, owning interests and properties in numerous regions.

“They have no idea what they're doing. We'll deal with them by mobilizing the police and troops to pursue them.”

Buhari also called those calling for the statehood of the Biafra and Oduduwa republics "foolish."

Ohanaeze, on the other hand, responded vehemently, calling the President's comment "disastrous" and asserting that "no damage control or image laundering" will be enough to compensate for "this collective assault on Ndigbo."

Northern politicians' silence, according to the organization, suggests that they are comfortable with President Buhari's stance on Southeastern Nigeria.

Isiguzoro stated that Igbo people are emerging professionals in all crises and that they will be a dot in the circle that will engulf nepotistic anarchists and anti-Igbo propagandists.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide had charged the leadership of the North to speak out against discrimination against Igbos and divisiveness created by President Muhammadu Buhari's disastrous declarations describing the southeast as landlocked, and no damage control or image laundering will assuage this collective assault on Ndigbo,” according to the statement.

“It appears that there are chains of crafted skirmishes programmed to either aggravate Ndigbo traumas or remind them of the sordid past a few years ago, and with the ‘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,” according to the report.

In the last 160 days, 513 Igbos have been slain, 2,436 have been jailed, and 854 have gone missing in the southeast's ongoing 'imported' insecurity concerns.

“The ‘dot in the circle' is a new signal to indicate that Ndigbo are surrounded or should be taught in the language they understand, but the reality is that Northern leaders' silence indicates that they are pleased with President Buhari's attitude on Southeastern Nigeria.