IGBO leader and a Board of Trustees (BoT) of All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Rommy Ezeonwuka, has called on the Federal
Government to be cautious in handling the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
and other pro-Biafran groups. The Ogirisi Igbo urged the government not to repeat
what happened to Yusuf Muhammed, self-styled leader and founder of Boko Haram
with Nnamdi Kanu’s case.
“It Yusuf were alive today, there could have probably been an end
to Boko Haram. Rather, Boko Haram is spreading because the leader that knows its
secret code has been killed and no one knows how to decode it. Every activist
has a special message from God. Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and others emerged to
prove that the Niger Delta where Nigeria gets all its money has been denied its
due. Today, Kanu is saying Igbo are being cheated and maltreated in a country
where Igbo have shown so much love, being the only tribe that has put 90
percent of its investments outside its tribal land.
The message of Kanu and Dokubo are almost the same. Someone must
rise to talk about the maltreatment and cheating on his people and that is
what Kanu is doing. He never preached violence like some did.” Ezeonwuka urged
Ndigbo to unite with one voice and seek Kanu’s release. “Asking for his release
does not mean I am encouraging him to go ahead for the actualisation of Biafra.
My previous stand on Biafra is that every Igbo man is already a Biafran since
May 1967 when General Odumegwu Ojukwu (retd) declared the Republic of Biafra.