IGBOS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY MUSLIMS IN
NIGERIA -KALU
Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor
Kalu, has outlined before members of the
British House of Common the level of
marginalisationIgbo in Nigeria are
subjected to. According to him, Igbo have
been killed by “Nigerian Muslims who had
been provoked not by any direct misconduct
by the Igbo but perhaps because the Prophet
Mohammed was insulted in Denmark by some
European artist or because Allah’s name had
been taken in vain in Los Angeles by an
American satirist.
Outlining the things Igbo have suffered in
Nigeria, Kalu recalled the Igbo massacres in
Kano, in 1980; Maiduguri, in 1982; Yola, in
1984; Gombe, in 1985; Kaduna, in 1986;
Bauchi, in 1991; Funtua, in 1993; Kano, in
1994; Damboa, in 2000 and the Apo 6
massacre, in 2005. He stated that although
the slaughter of people by Boko Haram is yet
to be documented, there could be no
question that a disproportionate percentage
of the thousands of victims, dead or maimed
or permanently impoverished, is made up of
Igbo people.