A group of young northern Nigerians has expressed their dissatisfaction with the ongoing killing of their kinsmen in Nigeria’s southeast. The group claims that Governor Soludo should be able to do better in Anambra, where IPOB/ESN members have carried out a series of attacks. The group has warned that if the deaths continue, they may be forced to take legal action against Soludo.
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has issued a warning to southeast governors, urging them to “stop the killing of innocent northerners or face the legal implications of their inactivity.”
The AYCF, in a media statement signed by its national president, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, following an emergency meeting in Kaduna, said the murder of northerners working or trading in the Southeast at the first chance was a totally unacceptable act of excessive provocation.
The organization had hoped that Governor Soludo of Anambra would use his experience in governance and management to stop the killings, but he appeared to be a letdown.
According to the statement, the murder of a mother and the baby she was holding, as well as a Christian aircraft engineer of northern ancestry, demonstrates that the lives of our own people are no longer valued in the Southeast, where IPOB, ESN, and so-called unknown gunmen are free to do as they please.
The group said: “The fact that the governors of the Southeast are the Chief Security Officers of their States but do nothing to stop the unprovoked killing of Northerners presupposes an ethnic cleansing agenda and we condemn it, in whatever guise – IPOB attack or ESN.”
