The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Wednesday lamented that the South-East is under siege with wanton killings going on in the region unabated.
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Ohanaeze said the killings in the region especially the recent ones in Anambra State called for retrospection and pause.
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor, stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, during a prayer summit organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), South East chapter, to mark World Igbo Day, held at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki.
Represented by Ambassador Okey Emuchay, Secretary-General of Ohanaeze, Professor Obiozor called on Biafra agitators to take a pause in their agitations and understand what was confronting the Igbo nation.
“We need to take a pause in the Igbo nation, we need to seek the face of God. We need to think about today, the Igbo nation is under siege with killings. A video was sent to me, the husband of the late Dr. Dora Akunyili was brutally murdered. If you see the video, if you don’t hold yourself very well, you won’t be able to do anything.
“The killings in the last couple of days in Anambra calls for retrospection calls for a pause. We are under siege, the South East states are under siege. We plead with the men of God gathered here; the CAN president is here, there are mothers in this hall, there are fathers in this hall.
“Something needs to be done, something urgent needs to be done. This is the message of the President-General of Ohanaeze. He has asked IPOB and other groups to stop this killing because if you kill everybody, who will be there.
“We need to take a pause as a people and understand what is confronting us. Beyond sit-at-home, these killings that have started going round from one state to the other in IPOB will finish us”, he said.
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