June 12th Nationwide protest; we will not be among, Nsukka Youths General Assembly (NYGA) president - Roy Ekwueme
Press release
Proposed June 12th Nationwide protest; The position of Nsukka Youths General Assembly.
The attention of the leadership of Nsukka Youths General Assembly has been drawn to a planned Nationwide protest termed "BUHARI MUST GO" and slated to hold on June 12th 2021
We deeply regret the deplorable state of our country where killings, terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, ethnic cleansing, clappdown on civil space, gag on free speech, shutdown of social media etc have become tragedies too many and now a common part of our daily lives in Nigeria. Unfortunately we are not convinced that the June 12 protest tagged Buhari Must Go has any clear cut agenda that directly addresses the root of the injustice affecting Igbo people in general and Nsukka people in particular thus our position are:
1. As good students of history, we are deeply concerned about Igbos being the scape goat of any national movement to salvage Nigeria. Starting from the first military coup hatefully termed Igbo coup which ambushed Igbos for extermination to the recent EndSars protest which was almost turned to Igbos attempt to destroy Lagos.
2. We were Massacred in operation python dance, shut off from the government, the IPOB, a pan igbo organization seeking self determination for the Igbos declared a terrorist group and most recently a presidential threat of an impending repeat of civil war genocide on the Igbos. In all these, we have stood as a people and no one matched with us or for us. All we saw were social media commentaries.
3. Nobody matched for us nor sat at home with us on May 30th to honour millions of our people massacred in an unjust civil war.
4. It also noteworthy that some of those who fought us tooth and nail, maligned and called us names just to elect Buhari even when the Igbo nation sternly warned of his historically proven nepotic political demeanor, are the ones championing the Buhari must go protest. At this fragile time, as Igbos, we must be wary of those we lay our trust in their care despite having common enemies.
5. That the proponents of June 12th protest seems to be working to get back their political leverage rather than marching for the ordinary people of Nigeria.
6. The Igbos must maintain a clear sense of what we want, either a Radically restructured Nigeria that works for all or a Sovereign State of Biafra.
7. We will join to match for a restructured Nigeria, Right for self determination, Electoral reform and Match against Fulani militia barbarisn and expansionary agenda in the south etc but until then.
Nsukka Youths General Assembly, (NYGA) the largest umbrella body housing the entire Youth population in the 6 Local Governments making up Nsukka cultural Zone and comprising of all Youths from Udenu LGA, Igbo-eze North LGA, Igbo-Etiti LGA, Uzo-uwani LGA, Igbo-eze south LGA and Nsukka LGA will not be part of June 12th protest and Nsukka people are hereby encouraged to go about their daily activities on 12th June.
The attention of the leadership of Nsukka Youths General Assembly has been drawn to a planned Nationwide protest termed "BUHARI MUST GO" and slated to hold on June 12th 2021
We deeply regret the deplorable state of our country where killings, terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, ethnic cleansing, clappdown on civil space, gag on free speech, shutdown of social media etc have become tragedies too many and now a common part of our daily lives in Nigeria. Unfortunately we are not convinced that the June 12 protest tagged Buhari Must Go has any clear cut agenda that directly addresses the root of the injustice affecting Igbo people in general and Nsukka people in particular thus our position are:
1. As good students of history, we are deeply concerned about Igbos being the scape goat of any national movement to salvage Nigeria. Starting from the first military coup hatefully termed Igbo coup which ambushed Igbos for extermination to the recent EndSars protest which was almost turned to Igbos attempt to destroy Lagos.
2. We were Massacred in operation python dance, shut off from the government, the IPOB, a pan igbo organization seeking self determination for the Igbos declared a terrorist group and most recently a presidential threat of an impending repeat of civil war genocide on the Igbos. In all these, we have stood as a people and no one matched with us or for us. All we saw were social media commentaries.
3. Nobody matched for us nor sat at home with us on May 30th to honour millions of our people massacred in an unjust civil war.
4. It also noteworthy that some of those who fought us tooth and nail, maligned and called us names just to elect Buhari even when the Igbo nation sternly warned of his historically proven nepotic political demeanor, are the ones championing the Buhari must go protest. At this fragile time, as Igbos, we must be wary of those we lay our trust in their care despite having common enemies.
5. That the proponents of June 12th protest seems to be working to get back their political leverage rather than marching for the ordinary people of Nigeria.
6. The Igbos must maintain a clear sense of what we want, either a Radically restructured Nigeria that works for all or a Sovereign State of Biafra.
7. We will join to match for a restructured Nigeria, Right for self determination, Electoral reform and Match against Fulani militia barbarisn and expansionary agenda in the south etc but until then.
Nsukka Youths General Assembly, (NYGA) the largest umbrella body housing the entire Youth population in the 6 Local Governments making up Nsukka cultural Zone and comprising of all Youths from Udenu LGA, Igbo-eze North LGA, Igbo-Etiti LGA, Uzo-uwani LGA, Igbo-eze south LGA and Nsukka LGA will not be part of June 12th protest and Nsukka people are hereby encouraged to go about their daily activities on 12th June.
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