The Coalition of Northern Groups has called on the international community to help in the realization of Biafra state, being agitated by the Indeginious People of Biafra, IPOB.
Comprised of 52 northern associations, the group in a communique by its spokesperson, Abdulaeez Suleiman made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, observed the worsening insecurity in Nigeria, should make the world “keep in mind that by far, a destabilised Nigeria will certainly threaten the peace and security of the entire sub-Saharan Africa.”
Read the statement below:
“The CNG hereby resolves to call on our friends and the international community, the UK especially, to understand that our bilateral friendship is guided by the principles of sovereignty, promotion of peace and the standards that guide legitimate interference.
“Hence, their intervention, exclamations and actions should not be drawn to discountenance the effort of the Nigerian state to protect citizens from violence and terror.
“We wish to renew our request for the global community’s intervention in persuading Nigerian authorities and the United Nations, UN, to facilitate the final actualisation of the Biafran dream by the Ndigbo.
“The world should keep in mind that by far, a destabilised Nigeria will certainly threaten the peace and security of the entire sub-Saharan Africa.”
“In the South, gangs of armed IPOB militia, violent secessionists and an assortment of militant groups appear to sense a huge vacuum in the capacity and political will by the federal government to challenge them, which they exploit with disastrous consequences on the nation’s security assets and, specifically on northern communities and individuals living as minorities in the South, while the presidency wallows in deflecting the issue.”
CNG further observed that the situation “is now taking a more ominous and repulsive form and context with an open declaration of violence and anarchy against other parts of Nigeria and the Nigerian State.”
