Ohanaeze Youths Align With Danjuma, Vow to Protect Igbo Communities

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In a direct response to the recent call by the former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), for Nigerians to defend themselves against killer herdsmen, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) on Monday asked youths in the Southeast to form security rings to guide and protect their communities and farmlands.
The group's President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, in a statement in Enugu, said Danjuma’s stance had further affirmed an earlier call by the Ohanaeze youths to respond to any further unprovoked attack by killer herdsmen.
Danjuma had recently asked Nigerians to use whatever means at their disposal to defend themselves against killers, accusing the military of alleged collusion.
According to him, “We hereby tell Igbo youths to form security rings to guide and protect their communities and farmlands, and deal decisively with anybody destroying their farmlands in form of cow grazing and or bearing arms but not known as a licenced security person. 

“We warn that nobody has a monopoly of violence, and Igbo nation will surely defend itself. Enough is enough! Any armed herdsman sighted anywhere in the Southeast will have himself to blame. Arise and defend Igbo land through well recognised vigilante groups.

  “This has been our earlier stand; we have been calling for self-defense; so, today, we are re-echoing that stand.  Danjuma has justified the position of Ohanaeze youths worldwide, we will resist any attempt to forcefully Islamize our people; we are ready to resist them the herdsmen militia.” 
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The group recalled that it had shortly after herdsmen attacked Ebonyi State communities, vowed to return fire for fire should such killings re-occur againg in any part of Igbo land.  The Ohaneze youth group said it had severally accused the federal government of double standard in the handling of the “Fulani herdsmen terrorism and Igbo’s non-violent youths agitating for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra.
 “Like Danjuma clearly pointed out, there seems to be a serious collaboration between the
security agencies and these herdsmen. It appears there are two laws in this country- one for the Igbos and another for the Hausa-Fulani. 

“How else would one justify the recent statements in the media that the government was considering amnesty for the Boko Haram terrorists? It is shocking; it is unthinkable. This is the same government that hurriedly branded the IPOB as a terrorist organisation, but same government is now courting internationally acclaimed terrorists.  “So, nobody should expect that Ndigbo would fold their arms and these killer herdsmen would come here and achieve their evil agenda. We shall resist it with the last drop of our blood,” the group warned.

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