CNG Responds to IPOB’s Cattle Boycott, Bans Igbo Goods In North

Hamilton Nwosa
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The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has directed northerners to stop patronizing goods and services produced and marketed by Igbos in the North effective Monday, 10th April this year, 2022.

The spokesperson of the group, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, gave the directive, in a swift reaction to the earlier ban of consumption of ‘Fulani’s cow meet’ announced by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in eastern region.

IPOB’s order, contained in a statement on Monday by one Emma Powerful, “amounts to a grave provocation and serious threat to northern commercial interests in the South East and by extension to the physical wellbeing of Northerners living as minorities among Igbo communities,” Suleiman noted

“In a renewed resolve to pay coin for coin for any direct or indirect attack or threat to northerners and their interests anywhere in the country, the CNG called for the total boycott of all businesses, goods and services operated by Igbo in the North effective from the same April 2022.

“The CNG also called on northerners everywhere to decline support for any political party, formation or movement that has the active participation of South East politicians.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the North while maintaining its tradition of tolerance and accommodation, shall however no longer be disposed to condoning further acts of irresponsibility in the form of deliberate threats of intimidation or harassment targeted at northerners living and doing legitimate businesses elsewhere in the country.

“Since such targeted utterances have in the past been preludes to physical attacks on northerners and destruction of their properties, in particularly, the South East, we urge northern transporters and suppliers of goods to consider alternative trade routes to avoid the imminent risks that come with this IPOB threat.

“We warn that the North has had enough of the antagonism from the South East and its attack dog, the IPOB and will no longer remain passive under such deliberate and sustained attacks and will henceforth be forced to react to every provocation and unwarranted abuse and violations.

“All those who have no other useful vocation other than attacking northerners under the slightest of pretexts, should know that our patience has reached its nadir.

“The North’s reticence in speaking out or taking action is not born of fear or ignorance of how to respond in kind,” Suleiman said.

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