Northern Youths gives Biafrans three Months to quit the North
''The Kaduna Declaration,'' a Coalition of
Northern Youth Groups have ordered all Igbos
residing in any part of Northern Nigeria three
months to vacate.
Speaking with Daily Post in Kaduna,
spokesperson of the group Abdulaziz Suleiman
said, “With the effective date of this declaration,
which is today, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, all Igbos
currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria
are hereby served notice to relocate within
three months and all northerners residing in the
East are advised likewise.
“All northern civil society and pressure groups
are by this declaration mandated to mobilise for
sustained, coordinated campaigns at their
respective State Government Houses, State
Houses of Assembly, Local Government Council
Secretariats, and Traditional Palaces to mount
pressure for steps to be taken to ensure
enforcement of the directives contained herein.''
“The North hereby openly calls on the
authorities and other national and international
stakeholders to acknowledge this declaration by
taking steps to facilitate the final dissolution of
this hopeless union that has never been
convenient to any of the parties.
“From today, June 6, 2017, when this
proclamation is signed, the North, a critical
player in the Nigerian project, hereby declares
that it will no longer be disposed to coexisting
with the Igbos and shall take definite steps to
end the partnership by pulling out of the current
federal arrangement.
“This conclusion is necessitated by the
realisation that it since ceased to be
comfortable or safe to continue sharing the
same country with the ungrateful, uncultured
Igbos who have exhibited reckless disrespect for
the other federating units and stained the
integrity of the entire nation with their insatiable
criminal obsessions.
“Rather than certain sections holding the whole
country to ransom at every stage, each should
be allowed to go its own way as we
categorically proclaim today that the North is
fed up with being the same country with this
pack of acrimonious Igbo partners.
“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra
by the unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has
lately assumed another alarming twist which
involved the forceful lockdown of activities and
denial of other people’s right to free movement
in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert
sponsors.
“This latest action and similar confrontational
conducts which 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, are downright
unacceptable and shall no longer be tolerated.
“Concerned by this persistent Igbo threat to
national integration, the above-named Pan-
northern groups met with several others and
reviewed the current position of the North and
jointly came up with the following observations:
“The Igbo people of the South-East, without
remorse for the carnage they wrought on the
nation in the 1960s, are today boldly reliving
those sinister intentions connoted by the
Biafran agitation that led to the very first bloody
insurrection in Nigeria’s history.
“Emboldened by the apparent indifference of
the Nigerian authorities, the Igbo secessionist
tendency is widening in scope and action at
every stage, with adverse effects on the law-
abiding people of other regions residing in or
passing through the East, while the Igbo leaders
and elders by their utterances and direct action
or inaction appear to support and encourage it.
“The cruel Igbos have done and are doing more
damage to our collective nationhood than any
other ethnic group; being responsible for the
first violent interference with democracy in
Nigeria resulting in a prolonged counter-
productive chain of military dictatorship.
“The Igbos similarly orchestrated the first, and
so far, the only civil war in Nigeria that
consumed millions of lives and sowed the seed
of the current mutual suspicion and distrust.
“The Igbos are also responsible for Nigeria’s
cultural and moral degeneracy with their
notorious involvement in all kinds of crimes,
including international networking for drug and
human trafficking, violent robberies and
kidnappings, high-profile prostitution and
advanced financial fraud.
“At the peak of the devastating Boko Haram
violence in some parts of the North, available
records show that the Igbo people have
variously been apprehended while attempting to
convey catches of dangerous arms and
ammunition to the troubled regions.
“There is today sufficient reasons to suspect
that some Igbos masquerade as Fulani
herdsmen to commit violent atrocities across
the country in order to cause and spread ethnic
disaffection.
“It is also on record that since the inception of
the current democratic dispensation, the Igbos
have shown and maintained open contempt and
resentment for the collective decision expressed
by the majority of Nigerians at various stages
via generally acceptable democratic processes.
“While these provocative acts of aggression
persist and grow in dimension with each new
move, leaders of the North whose people are at
the receiving end of the threats, appear
helplessly unperturbed.
“Rather than endorsing a concise framework for
pre-emptive action to protect and safeguard the
interest of the North and its people, leaders of
the region at every stage tend to seek the cover
of a flimsy and long-discarded excuse of having
fought in the 60s to keep Nigeria united.
“Without pursuing a resolute action plan, these
northern leaders have adopted and have been
dragging its people into a pitiful pacifist position
in order to sustain an elusive national cohesion
that has long been ridiculed by the Igbos.”
“Since the Igbo have clearly abused the
unreciprocated hospitality that gave them
unrestricted access to, and ownership of landed
properties all over the North, our first major
move shall be to reclaim, assume and assert
sole ownership and control of these landed
resources currently owned, rented or in any way
enjoyed by the ingrate Igbos in any part of
Northern Nigeria.
“Consequently, officials of the signatory groups
to this declaration, are already mandated to
commence immediate inventory of all
properties, spaces or activity in the north
currently occupied by the Igbos for forfeiture at
the expiration of the ultimatum contained in this
declaration. In specific terms, the groups are
directed to compile and forward an up-to-date
data of all locations occupied by any Igbo in any
part of Northern Nigeria including schools,
markets, shops, workshops, residences and
every other activity spaces.
“We are hereby placing the Nigerian authorities
and the entire nation on notice that as from the
1st October 2017, we shall commence the
implementation of visible actions to prove to
the whole world that we are no longer part of
any federal union that should do with the Igbos.
From that date, effective, peaceful and safe
mop-up of all the remnants of the stubborn
Igbos that neglect to heed this quit notice shall
commence to finally eject them from every part
of the North.”
Northern Youth Groups have ordered all Igbos
residing in any part of Northern Nigeria three
months to vacate.
Speaking with Daily Post in Kaduna,
spokesperson of the group Abdulaziz Suleiman
said, “With the effective date of this declaration,
which is today, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, all Igbos
currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria
are hereby served notice to relocate within
three months and all northerners residing in the
East are advised likewise.
“All northern civil society and pressure groups
are by this declaration mandated to mobilise for
sustained, coordinated campaigns at their
respective State Government Houses, State
Houses of Assembly, Local Government Council
Secretariats, and Traditional Palaces to mount
pressure for steps to be taken to ensure
enforcement of the directives contained herein.''
“The North hereby openly calls on the
authorities and other national and international
stakeholders to acknowledge this declaration by
taking steps to facilitate the final dissolution of
this hopeless union that has never been
convenient to any of the parties.
“From today, June 6, 2017, when this
proclamation is signed, the North, a critical
player in the Nigerian project, hereby declares
that it will no longer be disposed to coexisting
with the Igbos and shall take definite steps to
end the partnership by pulling out of the current
federal arrangement.
“This conclusion is necessitated by the
realisation that it since ceased to be
comfortable or safe to continue sharing the
same country with the ungrateful, uncultured
Igbos who have exhibited reckless disrespect for
the other federating units and stained the
integrity of the entire nation with their insatiable
criminal obsessions.
“Rather than certain sections holding the whole
country to ransom at every stage, each should
be allowed to go its own way as we
categorically proclaim today that the North is
fed up with being the same country with this
pack of acrimonious Igbo partners.
“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra
by the unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has
lately assumed another alarming twist which
involved the forceful lockdown of activities and
denial of other people’s right to free movement
in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert
sponsors.
“This latest action and similar confrontational
conducts which 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, are downright
unacceptable and shall no longer be tolerated.
“Concerned by this persistent Igbo threat to
national integration, the above-named Pan-
northern groups met with several others and
reviewed the current position of the North and
jointly came up with the following observations:
“The Igbo people of the South-East, without
remorse for the carnage they wrought on the
nation in the 1960s, are today boldly reliving
those sinister intentions connoted by the
Biafran agitation that led to the very first bloody
insurrection in Nigeria’s history.
“Emboldened by the apparent indifference of
the Nigerian authorities, the Igbo secessionist
tendency is widening in scope and action at
every stage, with adverse effects on the law-
abiding people of other regions residing in or
passing through the East, while the Igbo leaders
and elders by their utterances and direct action
or inaction appear to support and encourage it.
“The cruel Igbos have done and are doing more
damage to our collective nationhood than any
other ethnic group; being responsible for the
first violent interference with democracy in
Nigeria resulting in a prolonged counter-
productive chain of military dictatorship.
“The Igbos similarly orchestrated the first, and
so far, the only civil war in Nigeria that
consumed millions of lives and sowed the seed
of the current mutual suspicion and distrust.
“The Igbos are also responsible for Nigeria’s
cultural and moral degeneracy with their
notorious involvement in all kinds of crimes,
including international networking for drug and
human trafficking, violent robberies and
kidnappings, high-profile prostitution and
advanced financial fraud.
“At the peak of the devastating Boko Haram
violence in some parts of the North, available
records show that the Igbo people have
variously been apprehended while attempting to
convey catches of dangerous arms and
ammunition to the troubled regions.
“There is today sufficient reasons to suspect
that some Igbos masquerade as Fulani
herdsmen to commit violent atrocities across
the country in order to cause and spread ethnic
disaffection.
“It is also on record that since the inception of
the current democratic dispensation, the Igbos
have shown and maintained open contempt and
resentment for the collective decision expressed
by the majority of Nigerians at various stages
via generally acceptable democratic processes.
“While these provocative acts of aggression
persist and grow in dimension with each new
move, leaders of the North whose people are at
the receiving end of the threats, appear
helplessly unperturbed.
“Rather than endorsing a concise framework for
pre-emptive action to protect and safeguard the
interest of the North and its people, leaders of
the region at every stage tend to seek the cover
of a flimsy and long-discarded excuse of having
fought in the 60s to keep Nigeria united.
“Without pursuing a resolute action plan, these
northern leaders have adopted and have been
dragging its people into a pitiful pacifist position
in order to sustain an elusive national cohesion
that has long been ridiculed by the Igbos.”
“Since the Igbo have clearly abused the
unreciprocated hospitality that gave them
unrestricted access to, and ownership of landed
properties all over the North, our first major
move shall be to reclaim, assume and assert
sole ownership and control of these landed
resources currently owned, rented or in any way
enjoyed by the ingrate Igbos in any part of
Northern Nigeria.
“Consequently, officials of the signatory groups
to this declaration, are already mandated to
commence immediate inventory of all
properties, spaces or activity in the north
currently occupied by the Igbos for forfeiture at
the expiration of the ultimatum contained in this
declaration. In specific terms, the groups are
directed to compile and forward an up-to-date
data of all locations occupied by any Igbo in any
part of Northern Nigeria including schools,
markets, shops, workshops, residences and
every other activity spaces.
“We are hereby placing the Nigerian authorities
and the entire nation on notice that as from the
1st October 2017, we shall commence the
implementation of visible actions to prove to
the whole world that we are no longer part of
any federal union that should do with the Igbos.
From that date, effective, peaceful and safe
mop-up of all the remnants of the stubborn
Igbos that neglect to heed this quit notice shall
commence to finally eject them from every part
of the North.”
