Biafra4tharmy: Igbo group condemns
posting of Christian
graduates to North
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July 3, 2012 | 12:19 am
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By TONY EDIKE
ENUGU—IGBO Social-cultural
group, Oganiru Ndigbo
Foundation, otherwise
known as the “Igboville”
yesterday condemned the
posting of Christian
graduates from the South
East to the North by the
National Youths Service
Corps, NYSC, saying the
authorities are insensitive to
the plight of the people.
The Igbo group called on
graduates of Igbo origin
posted to the North to
boycott the service and
forward their posting details
to the organisation through
its email; igbo.ville@
yahoo.com.
Speaking with newsmen, the
leader of the group, Emeka
Maduewesi, accompanied by
Victor Aguku, Senior
Executive, Corporate
Development and Legal
Officer and Dr Gaius Ndukwe
Onu, Secretary General of the
group, argued that it was
heartless for the authorities
of the NYSC to mobilize
youths and other Southern
Christians for their primary
assignments in the conflict
areas of the North.
According to Maduewesi,
“we will hold the President
and NYSC DG responsible for
any of them that loses his/
her life to Boko Haram and
religious extremists. The
government must
immediately re-deploy them
to safer areas of the country
or suspend the NYSC
scheme”.
We are still mourning 11
corpers killed in April (2011)
as a result of the post
election crisis in Northern
Nigeria as well as others that
have lost their lives to the
current upheaval in Yobe,
Kaduna, Kano, Jos, Maiduguri,
Gombe and other Northern
states”.
The group reminded the
government and the NYSC
that it was barely a year
since they lost many youth
corps members from
Southern Nigeria to the
senseless carnage in most
parts of northern Nigeria.
“Thus we ask, how many
more lives of our children
must we sacrifice for the
oneness of Nigeria? Sending
more of our youths into the
same dungeon is not only
callous but highly insensitive
to the esteemed value we
place on our children many
of whom had already been
sacrificed to the Nigerian
debacle. We hereby put the
Federal Government and
NYSC on notice that we will
not hesitate to use every
resource available to us to
bring them to account if any
Igbo graduate is harmed in
the North.
Igbo graduate who boycotts
his posting to the north must
be issued exemption letter
by the NYSC on or before
10th of July 2012. We will
view the President’s silence
in this matter as an act of
hostility against Ndigbo. We
are by a copy of this letter to
relevant international
agencies putting them on
notice about this new
dimension of Igbo cleansing
in Nigeria”, the group stated.
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kunletiwoo:

This will bring total division in Nigeria ooo.

kunletiwoo:

This will bring total division in Nigeria ooo.

T9ksy:


And that will be a welcome development.

After 6 decades of stagnation & disunity, its time everyone bear his papa's name.

kunletiwoo:

Yeah! but, in the midst of all this, better decisions can still be made rather than this.

Biafra4tharmy: what better decision can that be?