Thursday, August 29, 2024 -The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned a viral video in which Amaka Patience Sunnberger, a Canada-based individual, made threatening remarks about Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin heritage.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alex Ogbonnia, the group said there was no sufficient evidence that the lady
who posted the video was Igbo, adding that she did not in any way portray the
Igbo character of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure, and equanimity.
“Ohanaeze would have ignored the social media video clip as
coming from a deranged psychopath or one of the fictitious narratives, which
with the Internet device was twisted, dressed, coated, and delivered to the
unsuspecting and obliging public,”.
Ogbonnia, however, said their telephones had been inundated
by various eminent persons who had expressed fears about the possibility of
people carrying out the threats
“It, therefore, becomes imperative for Ohanaeze to respond,
especially when the National Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, Mr. Jare
Ajayi, forwarded the clip and requested prompt action.
“There is no Igbo man or
woman that will contemplate throwing stones in a full market for the fear of
who shall be the victim, as the Igbo travel more than any ethnic group in
Africa.
They also create homes away from home wherever they are found.
They mix up or integrate with the local community and contribute to developing
every community they find themselves in.
Based on the foregoing, two major derivatives emerge: if one
should poison food in Lagos, Ibadan, or Benin, is there any guarantee that the
first victim will not be Igbo?” he asked.
The publicity secretary said the lady in the said video must
be a “depressed, drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of
history, and unflinching satanic in orchestration.”
He disclosed that the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Worldwide, Amb. Okey Emuchay decried the audio tape on social media. According
to him, Emuchay vehemently condemned both the content and the perpetrator as a
mischief-maker.
“They are the merchant of woes who deploy despicable and
incendiary rhetoric to create ethnic mistrust and conflicts where none exists
Ohanaeze seizes this opportunity to enlighten the younger
generations that the Igbo, Edo and Yoruba share a lot in common. We share in
cultural affinity, cosmology, morphology, and hospitality.
The age-long intermarriages
between the Igbo, Yoruba, and Edo have produced well-accomplished
great-grandchildren,” he said.
He therefore assured the Afenifere, the entire Yoruba and Edo
brothers, that the threat from the depraved mind should be ignored as ”idiotic,
meaningless, and vacuous.”
“We add that, throughout history, proposals by the maladjusted are
always dead on arrival. We use this opportunity to call on the security
agencies in Nigeria to trace the perpetrators of this macabre dance to face the
full weight of the law” he said
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