Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, chairman of the council of elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that those who attacked Ndigbo in Lagos during the governorship election on March 18 will pay for their crimes.
Iwuanyanwu who spoke in Awka, Anambra State on Saturday at the event marking one year in the office of Chukwuma Soludo, governor of the state, said those destroying Igbo properties in Lagos were “political rascals.”
He noted that there is no fight between the Igbo and Yoruba people in the country.
“I want to let our people in Lagos know, on Wednesday, I called a meeting of the Ohanaeze council of elders worldwide and we x-rayed the events in Lagos,” he said.
“I want to tell you that people who attended are from the branches in America, Canada, Europe, London, and Nigeria. We have resolved and I want those from Lagos to go home and tell those in Lagos that we have resolved that never again can we allow anybody to take the life of any innocent Igbo person. All of us are going to fight the person. Never again!
“We are in Nigeria and we have invested in Nigeria. Our investments are so much, we are not going to take the question of people telling us to go, we are not going anywhere.
“And I want to tell those in Lagos to realise that there is no war between us and Yorubas. Yorubas are with us. There are just political rascals, and we’re going to handle them.
“The elders have directed the secretary general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, [Okey] Emuchay, to set up a commission of inquiry to find out things destroyed; people are going to pay.”
