Veterans Warn Biafran Youths Against Buhari’s Proposed Police, Army Recruitment
December 9, 2015
Reacting to the recent directive by President Buhari for the recruitment of an additional 10,000 policemen, nationwide, the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, former Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, in conjunction with Biafra Veteran Soldiers in Anambra North Senatorial Zone, yesterday, cautioned their Igbo kinsmen and their South South counterparts against participating in the proposed recruitment into police and Army for now.
The Biafra veterans, who spoke against the backdrop of the current insecurity of Ndigbo who are serving in the Federal Government armed forces and the police, also condemned the siege laid by policemen and soldiers in some states of the South East zone, including Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Eboyi and Rivers.
Recruitment
In a statement after a meeting at Nteje, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, which dwelt on internal security matters, in Anambra North senatorial zone, leader of Biafran Veterans, General Robinson Nnanna said, intelligence report at his disposal on the formula regarding the police recruitment exercise had revealed that Igbo applicants upon their completion of intensive courses, either as cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Inspectors or as recruit constables would be posted to North East where they would be vulnerable to Boko Haram attacks while their Northern police counterparts would be transferred to South East and parts of South-South.
The statement by Deputy National Director for Information, of Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, Mazi Chris Mocha, enjoined Igbo applicants, who have interest in joining the Nigeria police or Army to wait until the terror war in Northeast was over.
At the zonal meeting attended by Lt. Col. Alex Ezenwaka, Col. Anthony Onyeesi, Emelife Francis, among others, the Veterans frowned at the critics of the emergence of pro-Biafra groups, saying there would have been no clamour for a Biafra republic if the Igbo were not treated as second class citizens and seen as inferior subjects rather than as equal owners of Nigeria.
Reacting to the recent directive by President Buhari for the recruitment of an additional 10,000 policemen, nationwide, the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, former Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, in conjunction with Biafra Veteran Soldiers in Anambra North Senatorial Zone, yesterday, cautioned their Igbo kinsmen and their South South counterparts against participating in the proposed recruitment into police and Army for now.
The Biafra veterans, who spoke against the backdrop of the current insecurity of Ndigbo who are serving in the Federal Government armed forces and the police, also condemned the siege laid by policemen and soldiers in some states of the South East zone, including Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Eboyi and Rivers.
Recruitment
In a statement after a meeting at Nteje, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, which dwelt on internal security matters, in Anambra North senatorial zone, leader of Biafran Veterans, General Robinson Nnanna said, intelligence report at his disposal on the formula regarding the police recruitment exercise had revealed that Igbo applicants upon their completion of intensive courses, either as cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Inspectors or as recruit constables would be posted to North East where they would be vulnerable to Boko Haram attacks while their Northern police counterparts would be transferred to South East and parts of South-South.
The statement by Deputy National Director for Information, of Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, Mazi Chris Mocha, enjoined Igbo applicants, who have interest in joining the Nigeria police or Army to wait until the terror war in Northeast was over.
At the zonal meeting attended by Lt. Col. Alex Ezenwaka, Col. Anthony Onyeesi, Emelife Francis, among others, the Veterans frowned at the critics of the emergence of pro-Biafra groups, saying there would have been no clamour for a Biafra republic if the Igbo were not treated as second class citizens and seen as inferior subjects rather than as equal owners of Nigeria.
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