A coalition of 52 northern groups on yesterday called on the global community to intervene in persuading Nigerian government and United Nations to facilitate the final actualisation of the Biafran dream by the Igbo.<\/p>\n
While describing as empty and of no effect \u201cthreats and promises\u201d by the President, Major General Muhammad Buhari (retd.), the CNG said that \u201cbetween December 2020 and April 2021, over 970 students were abducted from their schools in the Northern part of Nigeria with a substantial number still in captivity and some violently executed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spokesperson of CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, raised the views in a communiqu\u00e9 after an emergency meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n
According to him, Northern Nigeria has never experienced the present level of exposure to criminals and bandits under the r\u00e9gime of Buhari.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe CNG hereby resolves to call on our friends and the international community,\u00a0 the UK especially, to understand that our bilateral friendship is guided by the principles of sovereignty, promotion of peace and the standards that guide legitimate interference.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence, their intervention, exclamations and actions should not be drawn to discountenance the effort of the Nigerian state to protect citizens from violence and terror.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe finally wish to renew our request for the global community\u2019s intervention in persuading Nigerian authorities and the United Nations to facilitate the final actualization of the Biafran dream by the Igbo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world should keep in mind that by far, a destabilised Nigeria will certainly threaten the peace and security of the entire sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the South, gangs of armed IPOB militia, violent secessionists and an assortment of militant groups appear to sense a huge vacuum in the capacity and political will by the Federal Government to challenge them, which they exploit with disastrous consequences on the nation\u2019s security assets and specifically on northern communities and individuals living as minorities in the South while the presidency wallows in deflecting the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CNG, however, attacked the Indigenous People of Biafra, saying it \u201cis now taking a more ominous and repulsive form and context with open declaration of violence and anarchy against other parts of Nigeria and the Nigerian State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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