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RUGA: Be Ready to Defend Yourselves, Ohanaeze Tells Igbo as Northern Groups Issue 30-day Ultimatum

Nnia Nwodo, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organization of Igbo in Nigeria has called on his people to get ready to defend themselves against the threat by a northern group to forcibly evict them.

The group made its position known while reacting to the 30-day ultimatum the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNGs) gave to governors opposed to the RUGA settlement programme of the Federal Government to Fulani herdsmen.

Nwodo said, “My attention has been drawn to a broadcast by Abdul Azeez Suleman, speaking for a Coalition of Northern Groups in which he had the audacity to give the Federal Government an ultimatum of 30 days to rescind its decision on the suspension of its RUGA settlements policy,” he said in a statement.

“This irresponsible, unlawful and provocative outburst reminds me of the quit notice from northern youths two years ago.

“Ohanaeze insists that the RUGA policy is an Islamization and a Fulanisation policy. It is a violation of our constitution and Supreme Court decisions on the Land Use Act. Its suspension without cancellation leaves the Federal Government still in violation of our laws.

“The threat to evict law-abiding Nigerians from their places of abode in northern Nigeria is treasonable and obviously like the gun-toting herdsmen will go unnoticed by our federally-controlled law enforcement agencies.

“I call on all Igbo to be ready to defend themselves. Enough of these threats! Let Abdul, the federal government and others like them take notice that Ohanaeze has no objection to all Igbo in the North returning home so long as all northerners in the east leave the east.

“The nepotism exhibited by this federal government, its duplicity of standards in law enforcement, her undisguised Fulanisation policy is repugnant to rule of law and good governance.

“We will no longer tolerate any further threats from these northern war-mongers. After all, who should be aggrieved under the circumstance? The South that is bearing the yoke of oppression from cattle herders are trying their best to coexist with their aggressors, yet it is the aggressors that are threatening further mayhem. This cannot be.”

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