By BASHIR ADEFAKA
President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly, Barrister Basil Onyeachonam Onuorah, has called for calm in Orlu community of Imo State, South East Nigeria, while appealing to soldiers to vacate the area.
Onuorah made these appeals after an Executive Council meeting in Abuja during which the National Executive of the organization noted that the continued presence of soldiers in Orlu and some other communities within Orlu Local Government Area of the state was overdue “as we are not in a State of War”.
In a statement personally signed by him and sent to The DEFENDER, the Ohanaeze President General condemned Governor Hope Uzodinma for some of the issues.
“It is condemnable for Governor Hope Uzodinma to lock up people in their houses for weeks without making provisions that will cushion the effects of hunger, health challenges and other untold hardship the imposed curfew has caused in the affected communities.
“We hereby also caution IPOB and MASSOB to stop making unguarded statements that end up endangering the lives of NDIGBO. We are not at War with the Nigerian Government and those instigating actions capable of degenerating the already tensed situations in the country to civil war should desist from such with immediate effect.
“Why are the South East Governors dying in silence? The silence of our South East Governors is no longer golden. You cannot provide your people with security, you cannot take a decision and stand by it.
“OHANAEZE NDIGBO GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORLDWIDE will demand for the resignation of all the South East Governors soon since they have all resolved to die in silence. Some are even abroad and imposing curfew from there, this madness must stop,” Onuorah said.
