Ohanaeze to declare Governor number 1 enemy of Ndigbo over Oshodi market demolition

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January 12, 2016 2:05 PM

The threat was made via a statement released by the National President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

Akinwunmi Ambode

Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has threatened to declare Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode the number one enemy of Ndigbo following the state government’s demolition of a part of the popular Oshodi market.

The threat was made via a statement released by the National President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

The statement reads:

“It is instructive to observe here that contrary to all principles of common justice, the traders were merely given few days quit notice.”

“It is equally shocking that the government chose such a wrong time for the demolition exercise, thereby not only taking the shops from them but making sure that their wares were looted.”

“We are forced to ask: could this be the starting point in implementing Oba of Lagos’s earlier threat during the election period that Ndigbo would be thrown into the Lagoon? Could it be another round of deportation of exercise, similar to what former governor Fashola did? These appear to be so considering that a witch cried in the night and a child died in the morning.”

“It is quite inhuman for people’s means of livelihood to be taken away from them in such a manner. The government’s claim that arms were recovered from a section of the market does not fly at all here because it cannot be a reason for such a wicked treatment purely targeted on a particular people.”

“We demand that the Governor of Lagos State should direct relevant government agencies to adequately compensate these traders; anything short of that, Ndigbo will henceforth regard the Governor as their number one arch-enemy.”

The group also said that the demolition was obviously done in bad faith.

The state government had earlier explainedthat it was forced to demolish part of the market due to the activities of hoodlums in the area.

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