Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, Monday, said that the Pro Biafra agitators, led by Nnamdi Kanu, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was deceiving the Igbo using the name of Biafra.
As indicated by the discharge issued to newsmen in Owerri, by Okorocha's Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemedo, the senator expressed this while giving over Staff of Office and testaments of acknowledgment to sixteen customary rulers in the state.
The discharge additionally caught that IPOB exercises would just outcome to loss of trillions of properties and resources possessed by the Igbo in the nation.
The representative included that no normal individual would discuss division in Nigeria.
As caught by the discharge, "On IPOB, the cloud is gathering storm, no one is talking even our customary rulers, Pastors and pioneers, this is terrible for our kin.
"In the event that you will recall distinctively that couple of years back, amid the Civil War, it was a comparable story. That was the manner by which everything began. Around then, we trusted that the Ohafia warriors will have the capacity to battle and scatter the North.
"Presently we are been deluded that IPOB will head out Nigeria and give us Biafra. Indeed, even our Pastors, godly men and a few pioneers in the rustic zones, no one is standing in opposition to this activity and the tune of war is coming steadily like a betray infringement.
"We battled the war and it was trusted that the Igbos will gain from it yet despite everything they felt free to building up the assets of different areas.
"There are 5 million Igbo living outside the shores of Igbo district. Any type of war will cause the Igbo more than 3 trillion naira misfortune in properties and resources.
"No rational individual will spread the message of division and war since it doesn't profit the Igbo in any capacity. I encourage you customary rulers to talk against it and teach your kin on the genuine condition of things. Igbo need to construct scaffold of solidarity the country over."
On the issue of annuity in the state, Okorocha stated: " Go home and tell the retired people that you met the senator and he will address there issue and guarantee that they get 100% of their benefits unfulfilled obligations.
"On the off chance that in any capacity we are not ready to keep paying in future we might return to them and furthermore reveal to them that we can't stand to pay, we are utilizing the entire Paris Club to pay 100% benefits to our dear beneficiaries."
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