By Clifford Ndujihe & Tom
Moses Igbo Leaders have urged the Federal Government and all
stakeholders to avert what
they termed desperate
attempts by Boko Haram
insurgents to bomb the South-
East, warning that a successful attack in the region portended
grave danger for the country. In a statement by their Deputy
Secretary, Evang. Elliot Uko,
the Igbo Leaders of Thought,
ILT, described as worrisome
the Sallah day arrest in Borno
State of a long trailer laden with bombs and IED’s
disguised as cattle merchants
headed for Onitsha and Port
Harcourt. “This simply tells us that those
who are committed to
bombing the east are very
serious at their plans,” they
said in the statement entitled,
‘The calm before the storm.’” Consequences Noting that the state of the
nation is precarious, Igbo
leaders said: “We have two
choices facing us. One is to
keep quiet and look the other
way until it happens. The other is exactly what we are
doing now: Raise our voice in
warning, praying and hoping
that this avoidable catastrophe
would pass us by. Truth is that
Boko Haram is desperate to bomb eastern Nigeria. We
don’t want that to happen
because the implications are
clearly frightening. If you add this to the earlier
attempt to bomb a church
with 10,000 capacity at
Owerri, the attempt to kill
both General Muhammadu
Buhari and Sheik Bauchi, nobody knows how many of
such trailers have successfully
transferred the deadly cargo to
the east waiting for the time
to strike. “Had any of these three events
exploded according to Boko
Haram plan, Nigeria would
have been history by now.
Now, we know that the
sponsors of Boko Haram are desperate to attack the South-
East, let nobody pretend the
grave implications of a
successful Boko Haram attack
on the South-East is lost on
them. “Since the Kano Riots of 1953,
easterners have been killed
every year in very gruesome
manner in the North for 61
years; sometimes over
introduction of Sharia Laws, sometimes because of a
cartoon in Denmark,
sometimes over beauty
pageant article on “Thisday
newspaper, sometimes
because of election results. Pursuing easterners down
home to bomb them in the
name of Islamisation by force
would be the last straw.
Nigeria will not survive a Boko
Haram attack in the East.” “In this season, which could
easily be described as the
season of uneasy calm before
the impending storm we
remind the authorities that if
Boko Haram does succeed in bombing the South-East with
casualties, it would be
impossible to stop the
catastrophe that would
follow; reprisals and counter-
reprisals. “A people pushed to the wall
will react and the northern
crowd will also react and no
power on earth can hold
Nigeria together again. As the
enemies of peaceful co- existence are determined to
twist the tiger’s tail, this is
truly the calm before the
storm.” Threatens Akwa Ibom In like manner, the Akwa Ibom
State Government said
yesterday that there are
threats by the insurgents to
bomb designated markets,
churches and public places in the state. Confirming the threats, Akwa-
Ibom State Commissioner for
Information and
Communications, Mr. Aniekan
Umanah, in a statement, said
the threats were contained in “text messages from a
terrorist group, Boko Haram
threatening the peace and
security of the state.” The Commissioner therefore
advised members of the public
to be security conscious and
be extra vigilant by promptly
reporting suspicious
movements of strange elements that constitute
security threats to security
personnel for action. Umanah however assured all
indigenes and residents of the
state of their safety as
government has already
directed security agencies to
step up surveillance to tackle the threat as well as ensure
the safety and security of lives
and property including
sensitive and important
installations. In the same vein, Umanah
urged all law abiding citizens
to go about their legitimate
businesses as government
was on top of the situation,
maintaining that government was poised to sustain the
peace and stable environment
which made Akwa Ibom a
safe haven for visitors,
investors and her indigenes. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/boko-haram-desperate-bomb-south-east-igbo-leaders/

“We have two
choices facing us. One is to
keep quiet and look the other
way until it happens. The other is exactly what we are
doing now: Raise our voice in
warning, praying and hoping
that this avoidable catastrophe
would pass us by.

Dis ppl sef ehn,make una go sit down one place if not na EBOLA go scatter una life.

We await that and it wil be d end of Nigeria. Proudly biafrian