The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has reacted to a video of a woman advising Nigerians to poison the food of Yoruba and Edo people abroad.
The group said there was no sufficient evidence that the lady who posted the video was Igbo.
The socio-cultural group noted that she did not in any way portray the Igbo character of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure and equanimity.
Alex Ogbonna, the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, said this in a statement on Wednesday.
“The miscreant promised to encourage other Igbos to poison Yoruba and Benin people. Ohanaeze would have ignored the social media video clip as coming from a deranged psychopath or one of the fictitious narratives which with the Internet device was twisted, dressed, coated and delivered to the unsuspecting and obliging public,” the statement reads.
“It therefore becomes imperative for Ohanaeze to respond, especially when the National Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, Mr. Jare Ajayi forwarded the clip and requested for prompt action.
“There is no Igbo man or woman that will contemplate throwing stone in a full market for the fear of who shall be the victim as the Igbo travel more than any ethnic group in Africa.
“They also create homes away from home wherever they are found. They mix up or integrate with the local community and contribute to developing every community they find themselves.
“Based on the foregoing, two major derivatives emerge: if one should poison food in Lagos or Ibadan or Benin, is there any guarantee that the first victim will not be Igbo?” he asked.
He said the lady in the said video must be a “depressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestration.”
