Concerned Youths of Niger Delta (CYND) have given a seven-day ultimatum to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to apologize to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, over the group’s recent attack on him in Madrid, Spain.
KanyiDaily had reported that Amaechi was attacked by IPOB members in Madrid, while attending a climate change conference in the country.
In reaction, the Niger Delta Youths described the attack as “national embarrassments,” and threatened to destroy Igbo properties especially in Ikwerre dominated areas of Rivers State.
The National Coordinator of the group, Commander Chikaru Oronda Ndamati issued this threat while speaking with newsmen at the end of their emergency meeting on the matter in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital at the weekend. He said:
“The IPOB should remember that all the Igbos in South-South have and do businesses in Rivers state particularly in Ikwere land, which happens to be Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s ethnic nationality.
“We are going to destroy all the Igbo properties in Ikwere land and Niger Delta if they try it again. Ikwere ethnic nationality has four Local Government Areas in Rivers state including Port Harcourt City, Obio Akpor, Emohua and Ikwere Echie Local Governments.
“Having accepted the responsibility of the attack on Amaechi in Spain, IPOB should also be ready to take full responsibility for any reaction that will come out from their dastardly act if IPOB fails to tender apology within seven days.”
Other youths’ leaders who signed the communiqué at the end of the meeting include state coordinators Comrade Effiong Abang (Akwa Ibom); Hon. Ubong Stephens (Cross River); General Mike Gibson Saware (Bayelsa); Comrade Clement Okarevu (Delta and Comrade Nosa Momoh (Edo).
The group, therefore, urged the Federal Government “to take the matter before the international community to compel world leaders to always beef up security around Nigerian leaders on foreign trips”.
Also, the youths asked the presidency to impress on the Spanish authorities to extradite those arrested for such securities breach in Spain for trial in Nigeria.
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