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We Have Never Been At War With Igbos – Okocha

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November 5, 2020
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We Have Never Been At War With Igbos – Okocha
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FORMER President of Nigerian Bar Association and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Onueze CJ Okocha has posited that Rivers State has never been at war with the Igbos of the South-East.

Okocha, who was reacting to the curfew imposed on Oyigbo Local Government Area of the State by the government, asserted that the decision of the State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, based on advise of the State Security Council, was constitutional and done in good faith.

He described the incident that happened in Oyigbo, where members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, killed ten (10) security operatives leading to imposition of curfew in the area as unfortunate.

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Okocha in Port Harcourt on Wednesday said Rivers State and the Igbos have always enjoyed cordial relationship in areas of marriage and trading, adding that the two groups were not ready to be at dagger heads.

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The SAN stated that over 60 percent of business in the state were owned by the Igbos, regretting why some individuals would be fanning embers of war among the two groups.

He said, “Our relationship is very cordial, it is only these political boundaries of states of the federation that have tend to divide people. Igbos control 50 to 60 percent of commercial activities in Rivers state. I have many of them as my friends.

“I wonder why anybody will raise this banner of ethnic jingoism. We have never as Rivers people had problem with Igbos. Most of us, including myself, my mother came from Onitsha, which is one major kingdoms in Igboland.”

Okocha noted that many Igbos  have been appointed to serve in the state as commissioners, Special Advisers and heads of Ministries of Government under Governor Wike, wondering why some people would claim Igbos were hated by the state.

“So why should anybody begin to allege oh, some of us don’t like Igbos and I heard that unfortunate label being labelled as an accusation that our Governor hates the Igbo. How can? There are Igbos in his government who are serving in Rivers State. How many Rivers people are in any government, cabinet, in that matter, in anywhere else apart from Rivers state.

“But Igbos are serving in the Governor’s cabinet, Yoruba are on his advisory council, are on his executive council and many of them are activists here in Rivers State. we have even have a political organisation call Indigenes Without Boarder,” he said.

The legal luminary explained that the governor had the constitutional right to impose curfew on any part of the state under him if there are threats of breakdown of law and order to avert anarchy.

Okocha said it was wrong for the banned IPOB members to cause public unrest in the state having been proscribed by law, adding that the governor acted in defense of law and order, as it was a constitutional responsibility of government.

“So it is totally unlawful for anybody to begin to carry that banner of Indigenous Peoples  of Biafra (IPOB) and begin to wreak the kind of havoc that we saw played out in some parts of Port Harcourt. Mile One, Mile Two area, Emenike, Ikokwu axis and then in Oyigbo, a place which is the neighbouring town between us and Abia State. Most unfortunate.

“Lawlessness and unlawful assemblies ought  not to tolerated in a country that is working to have law and order, and peace to face the development of our country. So it was very unfortunate.”

He explained that in any part of a state where there is breakdown of law and order, a Governor is constitutional obliged to impose a curfew, which was exactly what Governor Wike.

“But he has assessed the security situation and based on the advise he got from the security agencies, I believe he was perfectly justified to impose curfew in those parts of the state where there was total breakdown of law and order,” he stated.

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