BIAFRA Gives Muslims and Northerners 7 Days To Leave The South

A group known as the Biafra
Liberation Council has given
northerners and Muslims in the
southern part of country a
seven-day ultimatum to leave
the area or be ready to be
victims of reprisals.
The group, in a statement on
Sunday, also called on Igbo in
the northern part of the country
to vacate the area and relocate
to any place outside the North.
The statement by the
spokesman for the group,
Amaechi Nwaofia, expressed the
group’s sadness over the killing
of Igbo in some parts of the
North by Muslim
fundamentalists despite the
assurance by the Federal
Government to protect non-
Moslems and southerners in the
region.
It noted that rather than
encouraging the southerners to
leave the northern part of the
country, the government, which
had been protecting the
Muslims from reprisals, deceived
the southerners to continue to
stay in the North.
The group recalled that the
National Security Adviser to
President Goodluck Jonathan,
General Owoye Azazi, had urged
southerners residing in the
North to disregard the warning
by members of the Boko Haram
sect to leave the North.
It noted that between January 4
to January 7, 2012, over 50
southerners had been killed in
different parts of the North by
Moslem fundamentalists.