12 pro-Biafra groups meet in Enugu, back IPOB’s September 14 mass protest

TWELVE Igbo socio-cultural groups on Monday met in Enugu endorsing the September 14, 2018 sit at home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The meeting which held at the residence of Chief Maria Okwor, was also attended by traditional rulers, traders associations, Youth groups and students organizations.

Speaking to newsmen after the meeting, the convener Mrs Maria Okwor lamented the humiliation meted out to Igbo Women who were locked up in Owerri for expressing their opinions in a democracy.

Mrs. Okwor alleged bitterly over the continuous ill treatment of Ndigbo as a conquered people.

She called on Ndigbo to sit at home on Friday, September 14 as a mass protest over their frustrations with Nigeria.

According to her, Nigeria must be returned to the 1963 constitution for it to survive.

Also speaking, the Secretary of ECA and founder of IYM, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko described the constant invasion of Igboland with military hardware every September as provocative and insulting.

“Every September military equipment is moved menacingly into Igbo land just to remind us that we are a conquered people. Next, they will say some students threw stones at them and mayhem will be unleashed on our people. There’s no war going on here, there are no killings going on here. Igbo land is peaceful, why the invasion.”

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“The soldiers should be drafted to Sambisa forestBornoo LGA’s where killings are going on everyday. They should go to Plateau, Benue etc and save hapless citizens who are slaughtered daily, while the government is either blaming Lybians or telling middle beltans to surrender their land to the Herdsmen to save their lives.

“Bringing so called python dance 3 to our peaceful region now is only designed to deliberately provoke a confrontation that will lead to loss of lives as they did last year.

Ugochukwu-Uko also said that the emergency summit urged “all Ndigbo who are aggrieved over this endless provocative and humiliating invasion called python dance 3, to stay indoors on Friday, September 14th to send a message to the world that we angry over this constant humiliation.”

“The meeting also resolved to send a message to the United Nations that Nigeria will die if the structure is not returned to the 1963 constitution.

“The meeting also agreed to organize a street march in October to drive home their demand for a new constitution, asserting that the rigid unitary constitution designed by the military is an evil document,” he concluded.