The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide on Sunday referred to as on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently tackle what it described because the exclusion of 1,443 repentant Igbo militants from the federal authorities’s amnesty programme.
In an announcement, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation expressed concern that the navy’s Operation Secure Hall (OPSC) has continued to miss former Biafra agitators of Igbo extraction regardless of processing hundreds of ex-combatants.
The group stated over 2,600 repentant fighters handed by way of the rehabilitation programme since its inception and but, none are reported to be Igbo.
Ohanaeze recommended the federal authorities for granting amnesty to about 700 repentant insurgents linked to Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, including that reintegration efforts are very important for nationwide safety.
The group nevertheless questioned what it described as a “obvious imbalance” within the implementation of the programme, asking why repentant militants from the South east have been excluded.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo finds it disturbing that whereas a whole lot of former terrorists from the north are being rehabilitated and reintegrated, over 1,400 repentant Igbo militants stay excluded,” the assertion stated.
The group additional described the event as a part of a broader sample of marginalisation in opposition to the South east, whereas alleging that Ndigbo have additionally been sidelined in earlier federal amnesty initiatives and safety recruitment processes.