3-MONTHS NOTICE WILL BOOST BIAFRAN STRUGGLE – GROUP TELLS NORTHERN YOUTHS

A group under the aegis of the Foundation for Human Rights and the Crusade against Corruption, FHRACC, said on Thursday that the expulsion notice issued to the Igbos by a coalition of northern youth will only strengthen the spirit of the struggle of "Biafran".

In a statement signed by Mr. Alaowei Cleric, his national president, the group said: "You commit them to disembark from Nigeria other than the unit we are supposed to preach." The group advised northern youth to channel their challenge to the federal government.

The group noted that the igbos were not the problem, but the refusal of the federal government to restructure the country. "What Nigeria needs is real, restructured federalism, where each region has an equal interest in the project," he said.

The group also urged the Igbo people and the entire country of southern Nigeria to continue to be law-abiding citizens of the country as the government tackled the threat of eviction against them.

The group, while giving historical facts of similar threats allegedly issued by some Nigerians in the north of the country, said: "The lukewarm attitudes of the various governments have led these threats to materialize.

FHRACC warned that the federal government must not only address the issue with a wave of effort, noting that "unless a proactive measure is taken to reduce this repeated threat of violence against the people of the South, we are concerned that the story does not repeat itself.

"For the federal government not to condemn the perpetrators of this act of treason, allow only the governor of Kaduna State to order that their arrest seems ridiculous.

"The interim president should be humane enough to save Nigeria from the imminent precipice.The governor of Kaduna State has no command power over the country's security agencies.This is an abdication of duty for the FG To be a spectator, while a governor with limited power does his job.

"No one is above the law and no one should be considered a sacred cow, and the law should also be applied to everyone, and the police should not give us a fragile apology. Are not masked men.

"They are known to prominent people in the North. All Nigeria's security apparatus should go after them as they did to South-South and South-East people.

"Even if they retain their provocative statement, perhaps because of the public odium, the law must always follow its course for the criminal act already committed against the country."