QUIT NOTICE: IGBOS NOW RELOCATING FROM NORTH


Just a week after some youths from northern region ordered Igbos residents in northern Nigeria to vacate, findings have shown that some Igbo citizens of the region are gradually relocating, Dailypost reported.

Recall that a coalition of Northern Youth Groups, in what they labeled: "The Kaduna Declaration" had given all Igbos residents anywhere in Northern Nigeria three months to relocate to their places of origin.

Group spokesman Alhaji AbdulAziz Suleiman, reporting to reporters in Kaduna, said on Tuesday, "with the effective date of this statement, which is today, Tuesday 06 June 2017, all the lsbos currently residing anywhere From the north of Nigeria Notice to relocate within three months and all residents of the north residing in the east are also advised. "

A visit to some motor parks in northern Nigeria on Thursday showed that many Igbos are already returning east to avoid being harmed.

When this reporter visited Park of God is good Motor in Command, Kaduna State on Thursday, the park was filled to the brim with Igbos, who are heading to his country house.

Speaking to our correspondent, a man who gave his name as Ifeanyi Odozie, an appliance dealer said he does not want to risk the life of his family.

"I've been in this place for thirty years, but I think I've gotten beyond my welcome here. I'll take my family to town and come back next week to sell some of my belongings here," he said.

When reminded that the federal government had since ordered the arrest of those behind the threat, the angry six-year-old father said: "The federal government will not be there to save us when the problem starts.

"Sine who gave orders, who has been arrested? I also have my town, it is time to go home."

Another lady, who gave her name as Chioma Okoye, said she sells secondhand clothes at the Kaduna Central market in Kaduna.

"I really do not know what these people are doing, I'll come back when they're ready to settle in," she said.

Likewise, a trip to the Kofar Ruwa Market Park of Peace Mass Transit in Kano also showed that the Igbos are already returning to their hometowns en masse.

Reporters discovered a person with their belongings, including mattresses, pans, clothes boxes and other appliances.

When our reporter approached one of the travelers, who was named Mazi Obiekwe, he said angrily: "Go and ask Buhari and his relatives why they want us to leave their land."

When asked how long he had been in Kano, he simply said, "Looks like they sent you after me this morning. Do not let me invoke 'amadioha' to punish you."

Meanwhile, prominent Nigerians, including the president, senators, leaders of the past have stated that every Nigerian has the right to live anywhere in the country.

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