Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir Elrufai has ordered the arrest and immediate prosecution of some Northern Nigeria youth group leaders who on Tuesday in Kaduna issued what they called a 'Kaduna Declaration' in which they declared “war” against all Igbos residing in the North, demanding they leave the area within three months.

A press conference addressed in Kaduna today by a spokesperson for the governor, Samuel Aruwan stated the governor has directed the Attorney General in state to file charges against the youths that gave the ultimatum asking Igbos to leave the north while urging Northerners in the South-East to leave the area from October 1, 2017, which happens to be Nigeria’s Independence Day.

The youth coalition met at Arewa House in Kaduna yesterday and declared they will commence implementation of ‘visible actions’ to prove they are no longer part of a federal union that includes the Igbo.

The declaration was signed by various groups which include Arewa Citizens Action for Change, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Arewa Youth Development Foundation, Arewa Students Forum and Northern Emancipation Network, but it is unclear if known officials of any of the groups actually signed the document.

They cite as reason for their decision the pro-Biafran activities of some Igbo, centred around the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying their latest action and similar confrontational conducts “amount to a brutal encroachment on the rights of those termed as non-indigenous people residing and doing lawful businesses in those areas illegally demarcated and defined as Biafra by the Igbo.”

When SaharaReporters reached out to one of the signatories, Ahmed Yerima, he denied that his coalition was planning violence against Igbos but stated they were responding to IPOB leaders who recently successfully staged a sit-at-home protest in several Southeastern cities. Yerima said his group will soon make a clarification to the public while urging law-abiding citizens to freely exercise their freedom of movement.

Firgemachar:
flatiyeasterners are cowards, I swear.

Just watch them heave a sigh of relief albeit in the form of empty chimp-like chest-beating rants.

El-rufai is eyeing the presidency come 2019, I don't see what he tends to achieve if not to deceive Igbos.

He hated Ndigbo with passion, now he wants their sympathy.

Ndigbo should leave the north with immediate effect.

afroniger:
Both Igbos and Hausas should call their youths to order. The igbo elders should have called Kanu to order when he first started his own incitement. Now the Hauses are also towing Kanu's line. Hope those hausas that may be arrested as a fallout of this latest episode too won't become popular like Kanu became after his own arrest. Both Eastern and Northern elders have failed in guiding their youth.

deji15:


This is nonsense from the Kaduna State Govt. If Hell Ruffian is enjoying his stay with the Biafrats, the Northern masses are saying that they don't want to have anything to do with the Eboes again.
All these short sighted people in power should stop extending the evil days.
Nobody can have a country with the Eboes successfully. They are too greedy and too selfish to share a country with.

nkowalo:
if only it true then it a good move by the government

afroniger:
Both Igbos and Hausas should call their youths to order. The igbo elders should have called Kanu to order when he first started his own incitement. Now the Hauses are also towing Kanu's line. Hope those hausas that may be arrested as a fallout of this latest episode too won't become popular like Kanu became after his own arrest. Both Eastern and Northern elders have failed in guiding their youth.

mbaboy:
How can u compare Nnamdi Kanu's agitation with what those northern youths did, the ibos have been treated unjustly in this entity called Nigeria and thanks to Mohammadu Buhari for making Kanu a great man

mbaboy:
the ibos have been treated unjustl in this entity called Nigeria

Zonacom:
Interesting times in Nigeria now

Zonacom:
Interesting times in Nigeria now

HammerEvery:


Muslimumudeen, Na you dey lament pass against Igbo, na you still dey shout 'Biafra must not stand'. Which one you dey, no go run mad enter oshogbo market.

Igbo people no like you, you sef no like them, them support Arewa, Odua, Arewa-odua, lugardgeria, anyone wey una wan call unaself as long as their land no follow, you suppose dey support their Biafra.

Firgemachar:
flatiyeasterners are cowards, I swear.

Just watch them heave a sigh of relief albeit in the form of empty chimp-like, chest-beating rants.

OJUcrook:
I agree. It is a tough time to be an ibo.
The Hausas are threatning the ibos.
The Yorubas are marginalising the ibos.
The Minorities are rejecting the ibos.

ZorGBUooeh:

Afonjas will be like,so upon all de threat ibos dint shake like our elders ad our coward sellout ancestors do.

ZorGBUooeh:

Afonjas will be like,so upon all de threat ibos dint shake like our elders ad our coward sellout ancestors do.