Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, on Thursday asked Igbos in the North to go about their legitimate businesses and not panic about any reprisal attack.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Baba-Ahmed was reacting to Tuesday night’s invasion of a cattle market in Omuma-Uzo, Ukwa West Local Government Area (LGA) of Abia State, where at least eight persons (all northerners) were killed by gunmen.
The Chief Imam of Umuahia, Alhaji Mohamed Baraya, said 20 cows were also shot dead.
In January, suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) shot dead a herder and 30 cows belonging to an Igbo man in Enugu State.
These attacks are coming amid a recent directive by IPOB that it has banned consumption of Fulani and Hausa cow meat. “The ban placed on Fulani cows will take effect in April 2022,” IPOB had said in January.
For elder statesman, Baba-Ahmed, those targeting and killing northerners in the southeast region should be “stopped and prosecuted”.
“Igbos in the North are not the killers of Northerners in the East. If they pursue legitimate business and live in peace, they have no reason to fear, and they should not be intimidated or threatened. Those killing Northerners in the East should be stopped and prosecuted. It’s enough,” Baba-Ahmed wrote on his known Twitter handle.
A reprisal could be bloody. Another civil war averted by this singular move by the northern elders. Kudos!
This are the kind of people crying for presidency god punish those criminals that wants to distroy the unity of our nation nigeria
There is no unity in Nigeria. All the top and strategic posts are held by one tribe, is that unity?
You must be stupid to say so,killings is everywhere in the country,name any section of the country that is at ease?
Your just a distraught element. Ethnic bigot.
How many people are being killed in the northern parts that are holding power now? Even out president state katsina is not spared.
God will kill all of you that hates Igbo out of jealousy.
Militancy has been in the north since 13yrs now yet they were giving power in 2015. Now its the turn of South east to produce the president, your trying to justify your hatred with a mere crime that might even be committed by Hausa community in Abia state.
Devil.
If you don’t want to see a Nigeria president from Igbo extraction, be ready to join your wicked ancestors because it’ll come to pass in 2023.
If they continue killing northerners in east anything can happen here in the North.
As much as I condem violence I hate to say that the so_called fuliani and headsmen have killed more igbos than the Nigeria soilders did during the civil war so what’s up with the name calling
They’ll sooner or later come to realize the kind of harm they’re
doing
to themselves.
My brother, Fulanis plan and executed that attack, the north should be very careful fulani tribe, even the Hausas are confused because they gave information to Fulanis and killed Hausas…. think my brother!