Nnamdi Kanu warns southeast governors that Ipob will react if Macban vigilantes arrive in Igboland

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has accused governors from across the southeast of conniving with Fulani cattle herdsmen with regards their plans to establish vigilante groups in the geo-political zone.

Over recent weeks, it has been reported that herdsmen body the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban), is planning to set up vigilante groups across the southeast. With herdsmen causing mayhem across the country at the moment, killing hundreds of villagers across countryside and Fulani kidnappers going on the rampage on highways up and down the nation, there is an aversion to having them around.

Reports that Macban want to establish camps across the southeast and have vigilantes to man them, opposition to the move has been widespread across the zone. After an Ipob security meeting in Enugu,. Mr Kanu  vowed to resist the plans, describing the governors’ seeming silence on the issue as payback for being rigged back into offices.

He said: “I condemn in totality, both in letter and spirit the underhand agreement between southeast governors and the call by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association for the establishment of Fulani vigilante groups in Igboland of  Biafra. Without much ado, I wish to state  that it is extremely shocking and shameful that at a time when herders have turned to terrorists and ravaging the north, Middle Belt and Yorubaland, southeast governors allowed Miyetti Allah to get away with such demand on our soil.

“It’s akin to telling someone in advance that you are coming to rob his house and he allowed you to just walk away, while pleading with you that you should reconsider. Instead of ordering their immediate arrest on the spot for daring to so brazenly reveal their  intention to invade Igboland, the  southeast governors appear to want to accommodate their demands.

“It defies logic that southeast governors would care to give audience in the open in Igboland to the organisation. Did the southeast governors stop to consider that Biafran traders in the far north, even though law abiding, can never be given the audience and reverence that these southeast governors have so shamefully extended to Miyetti Allah."

He added that Ipob is eagerly waiting for Miyetti Allah and their Fulani terror militia in Biafraland, as it will be an adventure they will regret for as long as they live. Also, Uchenna Madu, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra condemned Macban's request, describing it as part of agenda to Islamise the southeast.

Mr Madu added: “For the herders to boldly issue out this sacrilegious and abominable statement is a proof that the establishment of their security vigilante is already at execution stage. They merely want to know the reactions of Ndigbo which will always be temporal noise making.”

“Southwest leaders have never condemned or proscribed the activities of OPC or other Oduduwa pressure groups, instead they are working with them for the general interest of Oduduwaland. Even northern leaders have never done such in their zone but Igbo governors, state assembly members, senators and House of Representatives members are all cowards and political errand men."