US-Based Publisher Condemns Tinubu’s Inaction Over Igbo Killings

Former Director of Strategy and Communications to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Jackson Ude, has expressed serious concerns over what he described as the “seemingly official negligence” of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to the killings of innocent Igbo citizens in the South East.

This was as he called on all well-meaning and patriotic Igbos to as a matter of necessity, rise up in unison and condemn the wanton killing of Igbos in the South East Nigeria.

Ude, who is a Nigerian journalist and publisher based in the United States of America and a communication expert said in a series of tweets on Tuesday, that the sit-at-home policy being implemented in the South East geopolitical zone by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), is completely unhelpful.

In the words of Ude; “The continuous killing of Igbos by Igbos under the guise of enforcing a “sit-at-home” order to press a Biafra State, is highly irresponsible and condemned.

“Our people have not done any wrong going about in search of their daily bread at a time poverty and hunger has enveloped the country.

“How does it make a sense to continue denying the people you seek to protect their daily means of livelihood by enforcing a “sit-at-home” order, turn around and kill them and then claim to be protecting them from “Fulanis” or “terrorist government?”

The communication expert also called on agitators for the realization of Biafra to set up a political platform rather than resorting to violence.

He further said; “The most civil way to achieve this Biafra State is to use a political party platform, elect people into the State Houses of Assembly in the South and have them all sign a referendum for a Biafra State.

“The idea that a Biafra state can be achieved through a “sit-at-home” order and the continuous killing of our people is not only childish but criminal, “he said even as he chided Tinubu for doing little or nothing to address the situation.

“And to have the Federal Government watch and allow citizens from the South East denied their rights to freedom and killed without appropriate measures to protect them is despicable, irresponsible and dangerous,” he said.

Ude also expressed disappointment at what he described as the lackluster attitude and the silence of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo while the Igbo people are killed by a few armed individuals.

He said; “The bloodshed is too much and the suffering of the people who are in double jeopardy must be halted. We must intensify the call for the immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. This is one way the shenanigans of the “sit-at-home” enforcers would end”.

Ude warned that if the killings do not stop, another insurgent group might begin the protection of the Igbo people from the “sit-at-home” enforcers, stressing that the situation might throw the whole region into serious chaos