Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation [HRJPF]
565 Pine Street, Brooklyn, New York
E-mail: hrjpfoundation@yahoo.com , hrjpfoundation@yahoo.com , chidicdy2k@yahoo.com
Tel: +1 646 204 3693
February 14, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
AMBASSADOR ROTIMI’S INSULT TO IGBO: AN INVITATION TO VIOLENCE
The attention of the Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation [HRJPF] has been drawn to a statement credited to the recently sacked Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, Rtd.
According to Thisday newspaper issue of February 14, 2009, the Ambassador, in one of his letters to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe over diplomatic issues, boasted "I was the Adjutant General of the Nigerian army that thoroughly defeated your ragtag Biafra army."
It is saddening that, despite the "No Victor, No Vanquished" policy adopted by the Federal Government of Nigeria at the end of the unfortunate Nigeria/Biafra civil war, Rotimi would make such a derogatorily inciting statement. This is not only an invitation to violence but also rebellion against the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The HRJPF therefore condemns this in its entirety.
Since the "No Victor, No Vanquished" policy adopted by the Gowon’s administraion in the aftermath of the callous spilling of the bloods of over three million Igbos was planked on the fact that a leader (the Nigerian state) does not defeat his people but when he does, he becomes a dangerous invader; and considering that Ambassador Rotimi has portrayed the Federal Government of Nigeria as an illegal and dangerous occupant of the defunct Biafran territory, the HRJPF calls on the Nigerian Senate to ban him from holding public office for life. This will serve as a deterrent against future reoccurrence of this.
Enough is enough!
Comrade Chidi Nwosu
President
