The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has ordered the
arrest and immediate prosecution of Northern Youths, who are signatories that ordered
Igbos out of northern Nigeria.
The spokesperson for the governor, Samuel Aruwan, who
address a press brief in Kaduna said the
governor has directed the Attorney General in state to file charges against the
youths that gave the ultimatum asking Igbos to leave the north, while urging
Northerners in the South-East to leave the area from October 1, 2017,
which happens to be Nigeria’s Independence Day.
The declaration was signed by various groups which include
Arewa Citizens Action for Change, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Arewa Youth
Development Foundation, Arewa Students Forum and Northern Emancipation Network,
but it is unclear if known officials of any of the groups actually signed the
document.
They cite as reason for their decision the pro-Biafran
activities of some Igbo, centred around the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), saying their latest action and similar confrontational conducts “amount
to a brutal encroachment on the rights of those termed as
non-indigenous people residing and doing lawful businesses in those areas
illegally demarcated and defined as Biafra by the Igbo.”
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