Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) Worldwide has demanded the withdrawal and redeployment of Southern Christian soldiers from Nigerian North East region ravaged by Terrorist attacks.
OYC made the demand in a press release reacting to the recent release of suspected Boko Haram members which brought the number to 1,400 released suspects reintegrated into the society after a supposed rehabilitation.
OYC accused the Chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai of recruiting repented Boko Haram insurgents into the Nigerian Army, thereby putting the livesof Christians and Southerners in the war front at risk.
OYC in a statement signed by the President General Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and the Secretary General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike also demanded the immediate release of all activists currently in detention, the same way terrorists are being released.
Read full release below.
Press Release
Insecurity; Release and absolving of Boko Haram Suspects into Nigerian Army, a Security Threat to Christians and Southerners in the Military… Ohanaeze Ndigbo Seek Redeployment of Christians and Southerners in the Army from North East to the South
(1) Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide had called for the immediate withdrawal and redeployment of all Christians and Southerners in the Military from the troubled North East region to the South, and replace them with all the Suspected Boko Haram terrorists released and re-absolved into the Nigerian Army Under the Watchful eyes of Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Burutai, as Such obnoxious policy is a threat to the lives of Christians and Southerners in the Army, and placed their lives at the mercy of alleged repented Boko Haram Suspects,who might be Fighting the Nigerian Army from inside, as only Christians and Southerners will be eliminated in these rogue assignments.
(2) OYC is worried about the rationale behind the recent policy of release of Boko Haram Suspects and re-absolved them into the Nigerian Army, OYC queries Why Will terrorists fighting againtst the Nigerian State with Sophisticated weapons will be captured and released, Evidently, there are videos in circulations showing Boko Haram terrorists executing Soldiers and Civilians mainly Christians through a mean and ruthless process Such as beheading the victims, We therefore call for the release of all freedom fighters, Prisoners of Conscience currently in detention, without Carrying Arms against the State,as it is sheer injustice for terrorists executing Soldiers and Civilians will be released and re-absolved into the Nigerian Army, while those in the Self determination Struggle especially the Biafra agitators languish in Most prisons.
(3) OYC plead with President Muhammadu Buhari to stop Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Burutai, from further recruitment of Boko Haram Suspects into the Nigerian Army as it’s a mockery on the fight against insecurity in the North East, to infuse a Terrorist into the Army, as there’s possiblities that Boko Haram terrorists are gathering intelligence reports by Sponsoring some of their members into the Army through these exercise, which is aimed at weakening the strength of the military while strengthening the base of the Boko Haram insurgents… this madness must stop,or there’s should be mass withdrawal and redeployment of all Christians and Southerners in the Army from the North East to the South, and replace them Only with the assumed Repented Boko Haram Suspects to engage Boko Haram terrorists.
Mazi okechukwu isiguzoro
President General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike
Secretary General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide
