Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo; Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF, have knocked President Muhammadu Buhari and the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, over their comments on the alleged killings of eight Nigeriens and security agents in Owerri, Imo State.

Special Assistant to the President on Media, Garba Shehu, after condemning the incident, had tasked the community to unmask the perpetrators.

Buhari equally told community and religious leaders to speak more forcefully against the killings and to stand up and defend the ethos of the nation’s cultural and religious heritage.

But Ohanaeze, in a swift reaction, said that while the killings was condemnable, the President should not talk as if such killings were peculiar to South East.

Ohanaeze, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Chiedozie Ogbonnia, said that there are more senseless killings and terror attacks in Buhari’s North than in the South East.
The apex Igbo body further argued that Buhari, as the Commander- in-Chief, should take the blame for insecurity in any part of the country.

The statement read in part: “Ohaneaeze Ndigbo, however, frowns at the statement by the Presidency, which is nuanced against the South-East, as a haven for terrorists that attack non-indigenes and law enforcement officials, implying that the insecurity persists because the leaders have not forcefully spoken.

“This is very unfair to the Igbo, especially when the president knows the root cause and the nature of the insecurity in the South East.

“It needs to be added that the solution to the insecurity in the South East lies in the enormous powers of the Presidency.

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