The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, on Monday announced that it has given a 48-hour ultimatum to every Fulani with AK-47 to leave the South-East or be treated like “bush meat.”
The ultimatum is coming on the heels of allegations that about 332 camps across South-East are habited by AK-47 carrying Fulani militia.
A former Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG Celestine Okoye, had in a media interview reported that “there are 332 Fulani herdsmen settlers heavily armed with AK-47 rifles across five states of the South East zone waiting to unleash terror on Ndigbo.”
According to a media release signed by both the aggrieved National President of Ohanaeze Youths Council, Igboayaka Igboayaka and his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Chukwuemeka Chimerue, the revelation had corroborated an earlier similar report by a civil society organisation.
He further said that Igbo youths would not sit idle and watch terrorists invade Igbo land.
Igboayaka, therefore, warned “all Fulani herdsmen with AK-47 rifles to immediately vacate their hidden locations in Igbo land within 48 hours or risk being treated like bush animals wherever they are sighted with weapons.”
The OYC also accused the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies of maintaining criminal silence over the disturbing revelation, saying they should be held accountable for any security breach or genocidal attack in Igbo land.
“President Buhari and his security agencies who are aiding and abetting the crimes of criminal Fulani herdsmen should understand that they have done everything necessary to ensure Nigeria’s disintegration.
“Buhari and his kinsmen have divided Nigeria, leading the country into anarchy, tribal hate and crisis,” Igboayaka fumed.
He also cautioned the President and his kinsmen to have a rethink “on their covert Fulanization agenda and ethnic cleansing of other nationalities in Nigeria,” reminding them that “the Fulani who are not more than seven million in population cannot successfully conquer over eighty million Igbo”.
“The 1967-1970 genocide against Ndigbo where all tribes in the West, Middle-West and Hausa tribe fought against Ndigbo would not repeat again.
“Fulanis should get ready to contend with the forces of all the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria if they go ahead to embark on this impending attack against Ndigbo,” he said.
