Ohanaeze Ndigbo enjoins governors to evacuate Igbo speaking students from UNIJOS
By Racheal Oyelola
The youths wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called on the South-East and the South-South governors to, as a matter of urgency, evacuate all Igbo students from the crisis ridden university of Jos.
It was reported that this is following an outcry from the leadership of Igbo students in the institution.
The president of the federation of Igbo students, university of Jos, comrade Boniface ifechukwu had cried out that the students were being killed and maimed even as at Sunday.
In continuation of his speaking, he said in a regret tone that it is only the Governor of Enugu and Abia State has evacuated students from the area while others are being killed, even one student was found murdered on Sunday.
Base on the development reaction, the president general of Ohanaeze Youth Council ( OYC) Mazi Okwu Nnambuike urged the Governors of all Igbo speaking states to quickly deploy all state apparatus and safe the life of the students.
According to the OYC they said “the news we are getting from the university of Jos is not palatable at all, Igbo students are still being killed and we are not going to fold our hands.
The OYC worldwide, therefore urged the Governors to activate all emergency codes and see to the evacuation of the students.
However, “we commend in a big way the Governors of Enugu and Abia State, art. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Dr. Okeziu Ikpeazu for taking a leading step , the silence of the others is not good at all.”
“let us not wait till such a time we have mass casualties and they now begin to declare one week mourning, we hereby send Save Our Ship (SOS) to the Governors because these students belong to our constituency, the time to act is now,” Okwu said.
At the same time, according to the student leader he said they were in a terrible situation.
Ifechukwu said, “My office covers the five South-East and the other two Igbo speaking states in the South-South, but as I am speaking I can tell you authoritatively that apart from Enugu and Abia we have not heard from the other five states.
“We are using this medium to beg them for assistance, students should be evacuated, you cannot also study in such a volatile environment,” he pleaded.
