Boko Haram : Ohanaeze, Igbo Leader Demand Immediate Relocation of Inmates

Irked by the transfer of 47 Boko Haram inmates from the North East prisons to Ekwuluobia prison in
Anambra State, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, led by its president, Elder Chris Eluemuno and the Igbo Spiritual leader, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka yesterday demanded for the immediate relocation of the inmates in the interest of peace and tranquility in the country.
Addressing newsmen at his country home, Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Elder Elumuno said, “our position is that it is not acceptable to us having them here”.
“If what President Mohammadu Buhari has to give us as dividend of democracy is Boko Haram terrorists, it is very, very unfair”, he stated.
“Ekwulobia prison is not a maximum prison, it is an ordinary prison and if president Buhari meant well for us Igbo, it is not terrorists that he will bring to us, it is not acceptable to us and we are asking him to think again and look for a better place and send them there,” Eluemuno added further
“Let him build a camp and put them there if there are not enough accommodations in the North East Prisons”, he added.
“Ekwulobia prison does not have maximum security, there are maximum security prisons all over the country.
We are asking him to please remove them from Anambra State otherwise we will embark on the kind of trouble he will not be comfortable with if he does not remove them”, he warned.
Contributing, the Igbo Spiritual leader and Ogirishi Igbo, Chief Ezeonwuka stated that, “it is not acceptable and we shall not accept it”.
If those Boko Haram in the North East can kill people there, let them be tried and killed there also,’ he posited.
“Boko Haram inmates should remain in the North East where they operate as bringing them down here will be risky”, Ezeonwuka added.
On the protest by South East traders against relocation of the terrorists to the Ekwulobia prison he said, “the protest showed that we Igbo reject what the Federal Government has done by sending them here”.
The Boko Haram are hopeless, mad and demonic that they should be made to suffer the same faith they did to other innocent Nigerians they killed,” he posited.