Arewa Youth President and IPOB Leader
The president of the Arewa Youth
Coalition, Yarima Shettima, has said that IPOB leader of the Nnamdi Kanu, must
not go unpunished - The Arewa youth president said the group is reviewing the
quit notice issued to the Igbos - Shettima has revealed that the evacuation of
the Igbo from the north was off the table Yarima Shettima, the president of the
Arewa Youth Coalition (AYC), has said that the leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, must be punished. NAIJ.com gathered that the
Shettima also disclosed that the group was reviewing its stand on the quit
notice issued to Igbos living in north. “The steps taken by the governors are
commendable. One, we have since expected the governors to do what they are
doing now. Nevertheless, it is better late than never for.
“What the Ohanaeze and other
organisations that came out to denounce the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
are doing is commendable. “We are also reviewing our own situation. We are
going to have a meeting soon with other leaders of the coalition and come out
with a clear position of things and what we intend to do in order to move
forward,” he said. The AYC president speaking in an interview with Nigerian
Tribune, noted that Kanu is someone “who has terrorised the country”. He said:
“We will go as far to ensure that we take him to the international court of
justice. We will internationalise his case and ensure that this young man is
declared a terrorist. He can’t be allowed to go just like that. “To us, we are
seeing what he is doing as a business venture. So, as far as we are concerned,
a country should not be run as a banana republic where somebody can do anything
and get away with it, without respect for the rule of law.” However Shettima
stated that the call for the evacuation of the Igbo from the north was not
totally off the table. “I am not saying we have completely removed the earlier
condition that they should leave the north. However, the fact of the matter
still remains that one, we are not violent. “Secondly, we intend also to
explore all necessary avenues and ensure that, at the end of the day, things
are being done in accordance with the law,” he said.
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