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By Ugochukwu Alaribe
UMUAHIA—Igbo National Union-Worldwide, INU-W, has decried what it described arsenic the soundlessness of the Federal Government and leaders of the Yoruba Nation implicit the demolition of Igbo-owned spot and businesses successful Lagos State.
It warned that the actions and inactions of the national authorities and the Yoruba elites connected the incidental volition not augur good for the bid and harmony of the antithetic taste groups successful the country.
The Union, successful a connection by its Administrative Secretary, Mazi Austin- Mary Ndukwu, tasked President Bola Tinubu to compel the Lagos State government, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his kinsmen to alteration their cognition and desist from the inclination of targeting Igbo properties successful Lagos State earlier it snowballs into a full breakdown of instrumentality and order.
It further accused the Lagos State authorities nether Sanwo-Olu of moving connected a unsafe publication to ruin Igbo businesses and properties with a presumption to sending them backmost to Igbo onshore empty-handed, and vowed that specified would beryllium resisted arsenic the Igbo are genuine stakeholders successful Lagos.
The group, however, handed a 30-day ultimatum to the Lagos State authorities to negociate a peaceful colony with the owners of the demolished properties and avert immoderate disfigured scenarios that whitethorn travel the exercise.
The connection read: “The attraction of Igbo National Union Worldwide has been drawn to the lamentations of anguish and despair from Ndigbo successful Lagos implicit the clandestine actions of the Lagos State government.
“This stems from the caller and incessant demolition of the businesses and properties of Ndigbo successful Lagos, which is becoming truthful alarming and is being viewed arsenic a calculated plan against our people. As such, we tin nary longer support quiet.”
“To marque matters worse, determination is the conspiracy of soundlessness by some the national authorities and Yoruba elites successful condemning the actions of the Lagos State authorities nether Governor Babatunde Sanwo-olu to halt the lopsided and wanton demolition/destruction of businesses and properties (under immoderate guise) that are chiefly targeted against Ndigbo, suggesting taste profiling.
“The Igbo National Union Worldwide is urging the national authorities nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to compel the Lagos State authorities and his kinsmen to a alteration of cognition and rectify the already unsafe inclination against targeting Ndigbo successful Lagos State earlier it snowballs into a full breakdown of instrumentality and order.
“It’s present precise glaring that the Lagos State authorities and the Yoruba federation are afloat out, albeit nether authorities laws and proclamations, to marque beingness unbearable and hard for our radical domiciled successful Lagos State”.
“INU-W is utilizing this turbulent crook of events taking spot successful Lagos, to archer different taste nationalities successful Nigeria, particularly the Yoruba radical of the South West, that nary azygous people has the monopoly of unit and destruction.
“Let cipher propulsion america to the wall. The Yoruba federation indispensable cognize that Ndigbo are staunch stakeholders successful the structural and economical improvement of Lagos State and Lagosians.
“In the aforesaid vein, Ndigbo tin ne'er beryllium acrophobic oregon ever regret leaving Lagos if the hatred and wickedness go intense, but not without consequences for the Yoruba nation.
“If the Igbo tin past the treachery of 20 Pounds economical shutdown and starvation arsenic a limb of warfare amidst full blockade enunciated by him (Awolowo) during our efforts to exit from Nigeria, we volition besides transverse this caller Red Sea being orchestrated by the Lagos State government.
”If aft the 30 days, the presumption quo remains unchanged and unrectified, the Igbo National Union Worldwide volition travel up with a resounding and affirmative effect to the unwarranted hatred and wickedness against our radical successful Lagos State successful peculiar and the Yoruba federation astatine large. A stitch successful clip saves nine. This is INU-W’s basal for now.”
The station Demolition of Igbo spot successful Lagos: Union frets implicit FG’s silence appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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