The founder of Igbo Youths Movement (IYM), Evang Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, has admonished the Federal Government to shelve plans to invade the Southeast zone militarily.
Uko warned in a press statement that such action could result in a meltdown that may be difficult to control.
He added that an invasion would trigger the 51 year old pent-up anger in the hearts of the Igbo people in an unimaginable dimension that may make it extremely difficult to save Nigeria.”
He further warned that “those planning to invade the Southeast and conquer the region, clearly, do not know the pain and humiliation the people of the region have had to endure and swallow for years, their strength and wealth, and especially the commitment of the Diaspora population, and their readiness for a long and protracted struggle for justice and freedom from oppression. The government underestimates the mindset of over 20 million Igbo youths scattered all over the world, who have sworn not to hand over a situation of eternal servitude as permanent onlookers in the Nigerian project, to their progeny.
He said the youths “are very deeply offended, that the same government that has refused to rein in the deadly herdsmen who have made it extremely difficult for them to farm in their ancestral lands, paid hundreds of millions to vicious armed bandits terrorizing the North West, are suddenly bringing war to the most isolated, ostracised and persecuted region in the country.”
