Boko Haram Desperate To
Bomb south east:

Igbo Leaders have urged the Federal Government to
ensure ‘desperate attempts’ by Boko Haram
insurgents to bomb the South- East does not
materialise, warning that a successful attack in the
region portended grave danger for the country.
In a statement by Evang. Elliot Uko, Deputy
Secretary of the Igbo Leaders of Thought (ILT),
entitled ‘The calm before the storm’, the tribal
leaders 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,”
the statement 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…,
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.”

Good one!

Why Igbo Leaders of Thought and not Action?

Now that Obi has left them....anything can happen