On Friday, the Ohanaeze Youth Council asked that Nollywood star Chinwetalu Agu be released immediately, claiming that his incarceration was a threat to the Igbos.
Igboayaka, Comrade In a statement to InsightnaijaTV, the council’s national president, O. Igboayaka, stated this.
He recalled that the council had expressed unhappiness in the way in which he was arrested during a meeting on Wednesday in Enugu, emphasising that it had undermined people’s faith in the army.
He said, “Chinwetalu Agu’s human fundamental right was violated with impunity, and such has raised provocation to the over one hundred million Igbo around the globe.”
He, therefore, demanded the immediate release of Chinwetalu Agu ‘to give peace a chance, as well as ‘an unreserved apology from the Nigerian Army’.
According to him, “The council has lost trust and confidence in the Nigerian Army to bring peace in the Southeast.
“The service of the Nigerian military in the ‘Operation Golden Dawn’ will be characterized with zero patriotism, and with how Chief Chinwetalu Agu was treated in the viral video, if the operation lasts for three months as planned by the military, over one million Igbo may be slaughtered.”
He urged Nigeria’s government, Southeast governors, traditional rulers, and religious leaders to “rise now and demand the immediate redeployment of the Nigerian Army back to its various barracks.”
“What happened to Chinwetalu Agu is the normal intimidation, harassment, and abuse of fundamental human rights that Ndigbo have been facing since the end of the Nigerian civil war 51 years ago,” Igboayaka said, describing ‘Operation Golden Dawn’ as a ‘Greek gift.’
The army did not come to the Southeast to make peace, according to the group, and their presence will exacerbate security issues and “pose a threat to civil society.”
