Ohanaeze Ndigbo Denies The Killing Of 100 Northerners In The Southeast.

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has condemned a media publication that over 100 northerners were killed in the South-East last week, describing it as a lie from the pit of hell and calling for the investigation of the alarmists, to compel them to show proof of the wild allegation.

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization in a short press statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, said making such bogus and untenable allegations capable of setting the country on fire, should not be treated with levity, urging security agencies to arrest those behind the false allegation and publication to substantiate their claims.

The statement says the attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to the front page report by a newspaper on Friday, claiming that the Coordinator of the Northern Consensus Forum Auwal Abdullahi Aliyu and others have directed commodity traders and truck drivers to shun the South-East of Nigeria over incessant killings of their members by IPOB.

Ogbonnia said Aliyu has not been in the picture among the Northern leaders resident in the South East and as such is not in a position to speak on the relationship between the Northerners and the people of the South East.