ANLCA Chief Counsels IPOB

A chieftain of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Ernest Elochukwu has counselled the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on the on on-going agitation for the actualisation of Biafra.

Elochukwu who is the immediate past National President of ANLCA appealed to the leadership of IPOB to stop fanning what he called “the embers of inter-tribal conflicts” as evidenced by its reaction to the withdrawal of the so called quit notice on Igbos in the North by the Arewa youths.

The ANLCA chieftain in a statement issued in Lagos and made available to THISDAY said “I agree that the Arewa youths have no constitutional right to issue the quit notice in the first place but so does the IPOB also has no constitutional right to abuse anybody or group or to even call for the Igbos to leave the North. If the truth be told, both sides are guilty of incitements and people should not be selective in assessing the situation”.

According to Elochukwu who is also the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nestollo Group, it is noteworthy to observe that there is palpable inequity and marginalization in the country but it is of equal importance to examine if those are the creation of the present Federal Government administration. This analysis is crucial in order to dispel the uncanny feeling by a substantial percentage of people even within Igbo land that the current agitation may have some partisan political undertones.

He reminded the IPOB that shifting the focus of the Biafran agitation to the Igbos living in the northern part of Nigeria has negatively and severely impacted on the economic welfare of these people as most have put their business activities on hold due to apprehension which cannot be said to be totally unadvised.

“If the previously expressed modus operandi of the IPOB is really to use nonviolent means to get the world to the realization of Biafra, they should let it be at that”, he added.