Ndigbo Decry Attempt to Blackmail Onovo
02.17.2009

Lagos.thisdayonline

Igbo in Lagos yesterday have accused Oruku Village, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, of launching media campaign of calumny against Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonnaya Onovo.
The group said Onovo was accused of meddling in the crisis between Oruku and the neighbouring community of Umuode, in the same local government area, which it described as an act of crass irresponsibility.
In a release jointly signed by Chief Christopher Eze, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd), Chief Tony Idigbe, SAN and Professor Anya O. Anya, the group noted that "not only is this grave allegation spurious, baseless and malicious, the people making it are ingeniously trying to psychologically browbeat the police and government from arresting and prosecuting all those behind the January 31, 2009 local war waged against Umuode, in which houses belonging to a High Court Judge, a former Minister and other prominent individuals were burnt, ostensibly to protest implementation of the Enugu State government White Paper on resolution of the perennial crisis between Umuode and Oruku communities.”
"We are shocked that some people could, in this day and age, blatantly refuse their neighbours their ancestral homeland where they have lived for centuries and even have the effrontery to publicly declare a whole autonomous community 'their customary tenants.' This action shows a group of people with a mindset of those still in the primitive age of mankind.
"We are more shocked that they could attempt to drag DIG Onovo into a village affair in which he has exhibited absolutely no interest, or is Onovo from any of the feuding communities, he is actually from a separate town called Akpugo," the release read.

Foolish people!

Why are some Nigerians so crude?

i will not be surprised if this is a conspiracy attempt from the federal govt to disqualify him from being the next IG.
Some igbos could have been bribed to do that