A
former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Workers, Chief Frank Kokori, on Sunday described those agitating for Biafra
Republic as miscreants and dropouts lacking any iota of what they were
demanding.
Kokori,
who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, also urged genuine Igbo
leaders to speak out against the situation which he noted was a stage the
country had passed.
He
said, “It is very unfortunate what the Biafran agitators are doing. They are
not really serious about it.
They
do not know the enormity of what they are demanding. Those goading and pushing
them into the protests are doing so for selfish reasons. They are playing on
the intelligence of the agitators who are mostly miscreants and dropouts. There
are no serious persons among them. At this stage, the real igbo leaders should
tell them that we have passed that stage in Nigeria.”
The
ex-NUPENG scribe added that it was important for the Igbo leaders to speak out
in order to end the manipulation of the agitators by those he termed selfish
individuals.
According
to him, the Boko Haram menace aggravated by the refusal of the northern leaders
to speak out when it initially started.
“It
is not that the pro-Biafra protests are anyhow similar to that of the bestial
attacks of Boko Haram. But the Igbo leaders must speak out in time to check the
situation. I do not think any serious Igbo will support their demands. The
agitators do not even believe what they are clamouring for. The protests are
even only within the South-East. Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and other states are
not fully involved, ” he stated.
Members
of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the
Indigenous People of Biafra have continued to agitate for Biafra Republic
through a storm of protest.
The
Nigeria Police have also intensified actions to curtail the protests by
arresting some of the agitators.
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