Please lay down your arms!!! Ohanaeze appeals to Boko Haram

ABUJA – OHANAEZE- Ndigbo, the apex Igbo Socio Cultural Organisation has pleaded with members of the Boko Haram sect that have continually engaged in killings and wanton destruction of property to put an end to insurgency.

According to the group, the series of killings and occupation of some communities in the  North East was becoming worrisome and telling on Nigeria as a country, adding that  laying down their arms would help in  the progress of country.

Speaking in Abuja during a courtesy visit to former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark in his Asokoro residence,  President of the Lagos Chapter of the group, Chief Fabian Onwualu said for the sake of peace “our brothers in the North East should lay down their arms.”

On President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 ambition, the group, said that no  one or region was born to permanently rule the nation, adding that the  entire Igbo in Lagos have pledged their unalloyed support for President Jonathan because of the many developmental projects the President have embarked upon.
He said, “We have been very keen. And observing the trends of what has been happening within Jonathan’s administration and we have come to a conclusion that the president has performed.”

He said, “No superior and no inferior region in Nigeria. There is no nation that is superior or inferior to another, and that is why we are Nigerians. We all have equal rights irrespective of the region we belong to. Discrimination of any sort is intolerable and will not be accepted.

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