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The Ohanaeze Youth Council on Saturday warned the Abia State
Commissioner of Police, Mr Ene Okon, to ensure that his men stayed away
from the burial of Nnamdi Kanu’s parents.
Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Kanu, parents of the leader of the
proscribed Independent People of Biafra, will be buried on February 14,
2020
But ahead of the burial, the President of OYC, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka,
stated that the Abia State CP had, in an interview with a national daily
vowed to disrupt the burial of Kanu’s parents should the IPOB leader’s
followers show up in Umuahia or anywhere near Afaraukwu, Kanu’s
hometown.
Igboayaka cautioned that any move by the police to disrupt the burial or
launch ‘Operation Elephant Dance’ would be resisted by his group.
A statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to
the OYC President, read in parts, “In an interview he (Abia CP) granted a
national daily, Sun Newspapers, he vowed to disrupt and scatter the
venue of the burial ceremony if Kanu’s followers dare venture into
Umuahia or anywhere around the Afaraukwu community.
“Okon added that the police under him would launch Elephant Dance should
IPOB members refuse to heed to his dictates. We in OYC see this tough
talk and boastful outburst from the police boss in Abia as reopening the
wounds of the Nigeria-Biafra war, which was declared “no victor, no
vanquished” by the then Nigerian military government.
“Okon’s deadly outburst at this point, if not dragging Nigeria back to
the repeat of the 1966 crisis, is capable of causing chaos and anarchy
in the country. As worrisome and shameful as this could be at this hour,
we are compelled to advise Mr Okon that no reasonable security agency
launches or deploys a crime fighting system where there is no crime.
“Any move to disrupt the burial or launch ‘Operation Elephant Dance’ by
the Nigeria Police Force would be solely viewed as an act of
conventional war against Ndigbo, and we must resist it with anything
within our reach.”
Igboayaka, however, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu
Buhari, to withdraw military troops and police personnel hovering around
Afaraukwu community, so as to allow the bereaved to accord their last
respect to the late father and mother of Nnamdi Kanu.
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