FOLLOWING the ultimatum issued by some northern youth groups for Igbos living in the north to leave and the responses from other ethnic groups, the federal government has expressed its determination to with deal perpetrators of renewed ethnic tensions in the country.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Wednesday that even though such ultimatums were not new, the nation’s security agencies were up to the task and on top of the matter.
Briefing State House correspondents after the regular meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by acting President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, he however noted that the issue was not part of the deliberations during the meeting.
In response to a question on the ultimatum, he said: “The issue of one or two groups issuing statements that is capable of destabilizing the polity and then being responded to by another group, I think did not just start today or did not start yesterday.
“What I want to assure you is that security organizations are very very much on top of this matter.”
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