UWAZURUIKE DECLARES NDIGBO AS ENDANGERED SPECIES IN NIGERIA

Chief Ralph Uwazuruike the founder of Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) has declared  that the condition of Ndigbo in Nigeria have gradually being elevated from second to third class citizens, insisting  that in future no person from the ethnic region would occupy any public office in Nigeria.
      Uwazuruike stated this in a statement signed by  Mazi Chris Mocha, the organizations Director of Information shortly after its monthly meeting held today at Ojukwu memorial library (Auditorium), in new Owerri, Imo state,



He expressed concern that Ndigbo are still being treated as inferior citizens and looked at with scornful eyes, lamenting that citizens of the ethnic group have remained prime targets in every violence across the country with little or no intervention from federal government.
The freedom fighter further described the conditions Ndigbo are facing in Nigeria as worrisome,while noting that Igbo citizens had become an endangered species in the unworkable contraption called Nigeria.

He  cited  examples with the gruesome murder of Ndigbo in recent times without any provocation in some Northern states by muslim extremists.

According to him ''Ndigbo have been massacred in the north, their women raped and abducted by armed Fulani herdsmen in various local communities.
       when a tribe becomes an endangered species; there is always no security to lives and property; there is a ceiling placed on them beyond which they cannot grow; there is no future, the Igbo child is made to look very inferior before his other mates from Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba tribes; that means  Ndi Igbo are not wanted in Nigeria. And this is why our people want Biafra at  all course”.


Uwazuruike noted injustice and marginalization as part of the reasons for his establishment of MASSOB on September 13, 1999.

He recalled  that despite he single handedly mobilized supporters for ex-president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for him to assume democratic power only for him to continue with his hatred and marginalization of Ndigbo.
Another contributory factor he pointed out was the ex-president’s utterance and actions on Ndigbo, stressing that despite the no victor no vanquished philosophy of  Nigeria after the civil war, the former president during his visit to Bayelsa state had said “Ndigbo’s cry against marginalization was uncalled for as people defeated in any war, such a tribe would stay for 200 years before they could rise again”.
And to worsen the matter, Uwazuruike reported that that Chief Obasanjo to the chagrin of the pan Igbo socio-cultural group “Ohanaeze Ndigbo” who also voted him to power during the general elections of 1999, turned back and denied Ndigbo a membership of the state security council,which he observed as a violation of section 4 (2) of 1999 constitution (as amended) that stipulated that two persons shall be appointed from each of the six geo-political zones in the composition of the state security council.
Uwazuruike further revealed that the conspiracy between the North and South-west against the Igbo is real.

He raised fresh concern that in the next few years or thereabout Ndigbo would be stopped from occupying any public office, recalling that he had in September 29, 2001 told Ohanaeze NdiIgbo that because of the conspiracy against Igbo, the tribe would never produce the president of Nigeria till thy kingdom come.