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#EndSARS: Prof Ango’s kinsmen disown him over claims of killing Northerners in South East

11th December 2020
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#EndSARS: Prof Ango’s kinsmen disown him over claims of killing Northerners in South East
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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
kinsmen of Prof. Ango Abdullahi, Leader Northern Elders Forum (NEF), have disassociated themselves from him following his claim that some Northerners residing in the South East were killed during the #EndSARS protests.
The Kinsmen under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development, noted that they would not be part of such reckless remark which is capable of igniting violence between the regions.
Its National Coordinator, Engr. Zana Goni and National Women Leader, Hajia Mario Bichi, in a statement, Friday, appealed to Nigerians to ignore him, stressing that the statement was his personal opinion and does not represent the views of Northerners.
Goni said: “We wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the statement credited to a well-read and respected elder statesman from our region, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, to the effect that Igbo people killed many northerners in the South East during the #EndSARS protest  which was hijacked by some sponsored criminal elements.
“This statement is false, unfortunate, insensitive, callous and meant to instigate Nigerians against one other.
“Making this unfounded claim, especially at a time Nigerians had worked past the ugly civil war experiences and are building bridges and consolidating on national reconciliation, is the least unfortunate.
“We wish to let Nigerians know that Prof. Ango Abdullahi’s statement was his personal opinion and did not represent the position of Northern Elders as he had portrayed.
“We expect that an elder statesman of his status with such level of education ought to have known the difference between criminality and ethnic agenda.
“What happened in some South East states was a pure act of criminality and  not an Igbo agenda and was not  peculiar to the region,” he said.
He continued: “Nothing can be more misleading than this. People were killed and properties destroyed in several parts of the country including some parts of the North.
“It is unfair to attribute this act of some misguided deviants as a collective Igbo agenda.
“It is an established facts that during and after the uprising, so many Igbo group rose to condemn the attacks by these criminals and even shared intelligence with security agencies which led to the arrest of so many of these misguided youths.
“Prominent groups in Igbo land also condemned the activities of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB, in public. So we wonder where Prof. Ango got his fact from.”
They advised that “we guide our comments especially those capable of igniting hate across the country.”
“We must continue to preach national unity and work together to defeat criminality in our country instead of attributing such act to a particular region.
“We therefore call our Northern and Southern brother to ignore this statement in its entirety.”
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