Ohanaeze Demands end to all Attacks against Igbos

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Sunday demanded an end to various forms of attack, including ethnic slurs against the Igbo, particularly in Lagos State.

In a release by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Chiedozie Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze described the #IgboMustGo slogan, which surfaced during the recent nationwide hunger protest, as worrisome.

In the release , the organisation said the slogan was nothing but ethnic profiling and hate speech, adding that it was the latest in a long list of ethnic attacks against the Igbo in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos State, demanding an end to the trend.

Ohaneze pointed out that unless something decisive was done by the government, there would be no end to the “orchestrated ethnic profiling, hate speech, incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric and outright demolition of Igbo properties and liquidation of their sources of income in Lagos State since a few years now.”

The organization said,“It is certain that such reckless, provocative, divisive, instigative and inflammatory dispositions towards the Igbos in Lagos State, will remain unabated, except of course, there are manifest consequences for such vexatious, unscrupulous loose-cannons and hate-mongers,” it said.

The organisation said it recalled that last year, a few days before the March 18, 2023 governorship elections, a video went viral on social media showing Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, commonly known as ‘MC Oluomo’, where he issued a threat to the Igbo residents of Lagos to ‘either vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or stay at home’.