- By Halimah Olamide
A leader of Igbo in Lagos and Eze in Ndigbo of Ajao Estate Fredrick Nwajagu, has vowed to invite members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra to provide security for their kinsmen living in Lagos.
In a video that has now gone viral, the Igbo chief said the move is to reassure the people of south East extraction of their protection.
But in a swift reaction, the Police command has reacted saying it will not take any threat to the security of the state with levity.
“To start with, the ever-ready @LagosPoliceNG will never fold its arms and allow such within the state,” the police spokesman in Lagos wrote.
“IPOB, we will invite them. They have no job. All of the IPOB will protect all of our shops. And we have to pay them. We have to mobilise for that. We have to do that. We must have our security so they will stop attacking us at midnight, in the morning, and in the afternoon.
“When they discover that we have our security before they come, they will know that we have our men there. I am not saying a single word to be hidden. I am not hiding my words. Let my words go viral. Igbo must get their right and get a stand in Lagos State,” Nwajagu said in the video.
IPOB is an outlawed organization with its base in the South East region of Nigeria. The group has been mostly active in Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia.
The group had foisted a sit-at-home order on residents of the region with obviously dire consequences on businesses and personal lives.
Armed members of the group had enforced it’s orders with much brutality with many cases of deaths, maiming and abductions.