Says Absolute control of our resources remains our demand
Calls for dismemberment of Nigeria or negotiate togetherness
Emmanuel Ukudolo l Tuesday, April 03, 2018
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – The Supreme Egbesu Assembly(SEA), has called on ethnic nationalities in the South and Middle Belt to constitute themselves into a ‘Pride of Lions’ to resist wolf packs being imported from Niger, Chad, Mali and Sudan to annihilate other ethnic nationalities.
Leader of SEA, Werinipre Noel Digifa who led the Ijaw delegation to the the conference of Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt in Lagos said the Ijaw Nation has been in the struggle to defend itself from annihilation and asked how the South and Middle Belt can stand against threat of annihilation.
For him, a wolf pack does not have the capacity to withstand a pride of lions hence the need for ethnic nationalities to constitute themselves to look alike a pride of lions.
According to him, the wolf that was presented by the political heavyweights of the West has unveiled itself and now rampaging the length and breadth of the Middle Belt, Christian communities in the north and southern part of Nigeria.
“This rampage will spread to every ethnic nationality because it is well scripted and being executed using wolf packs that are planted in sleeper cells across the length and breadth of the territories. They intend to colonise particularly the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria”,he noted.
Consequently he advised, “No ethnic group should contemplate working in isolation because the wolf packs are being imported from Niger, Chad, Mali, Sudan, etc. It is therefore very imperative for the contiguous ethnic nationalities to work in synergy for their common security and resistance to the wolf packs. If contiguous ethnic nationalities synergise, we shall build a chain of contiguous ethnic resistance groups that will be at the beck and call of each other. In other words, we would become several prides of lions that can comfortably consume the emerging wolf packs, who are out there to annihilate all other ethnic groups in Nigeria”, he said.
He re-echoed the words of of Lt. Gen. T.Y. Danjuma retd, for people in the Middle Belt to defend themselves, stressing that self determination has been a household name among the Ijaws and pledged to support the South and Middle Belt in the struggle so long as it will speed up the actualisation of the Niger Delta Republic as declared by Isaac Boro in February 23, 1966 and the letters of the Kaima declaration by the Ijaw youths.
He called for dismemberment of Nigeria and in the alternative negotiate our togetherness.
“Let us dismember this country and if and where necessary, renegotiate our togetherness, otherwise, every ethnic group should hold their territory firmly to themselves and not Nigeria”, he said.
He said that all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria have been unfair to the Niger Delta, especially the Ijaw people, stressing that absolute control of “resources in our domain remains out position till date and our blood has been spilled, our water has been polluted, our farm lands have been polluted, our environment is polluted and as a matter of fact, the people of the Niger Delta and particularly the Ijaw people have been subjected to inhuman conditions in their homes, farms, etc”, he said.
In his message to the occasion, President, The Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt Forum for Development, Mr. Sydney Imobhio alluded to attacks by Fulani herdsmen that has killed and rendered many homeless in Benue State, Taraba State, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kogi, Kwara and many territories in the Middle Belt.
“In many southern states like Osun, Nimmo in Enugu, we have seen gory scenes of attacks on our people. It is our historic responsibilities to bring back peace into our fatherland. We have to do this by coming together, share our experiences, hold the shoulder of one another and approach the greater future with collective enthusiasm. Our weapons is neither guns but the indigenous knowledge God has given us to engage other nationalities in Nigeria in a constructive way for peace to reign in Nigeria and for abundance of joy and peace of the mind”, he said.
He said that in the past, under military regime, the talk was government unleashing violence on the people but today, violence is being unleashed by the citizens on themselves, and called for halt in the carnage in the Middle Belt.
“ These problems cannot be eliminated if we work alone. In unity lay our strength. This is the first real effort at uniting the people of the South and the Middle Belt”, he said, stressing “We are determined to work together on the principle that threat to anyone is threat to all… We call on men men and women of the creeks, farmers of the Plateau and the plain fields, the hunters of the valleys and others in the thick forests and the Savannah Belt to come together under the new great banner for freedom and unity of our people”, he said.
