The youth wing of the largest Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged the governors of the South-East and South-South to evacuate all Igbo students from the crisis-plagued University of Jos as soon as possible.
According to the DAILY POST, this is in response to an uproar from the institution’s Igbo student leadership.
Comrade Boniface Ifechukwu, President of the Federation of Igbo Students at the University of Jos, has stated that students are still being killed and injured as of yesterday, Sunday.
Only the governors of Enugu and Abia states, he added, have evacuated pupils from the area.
The President-General of the OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, reacted to the event by urging the governors of all Igbo-speaking states to promptly deploy the state apparatus and rescue the kids.
“The news we are getting from the University of Jos is not palatable at all. Igbo students are still being killed and we are not going to fold our hands.
“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council Worldwide, therefore, ask the governors to activate all emergency codes and see to the evacuation of these students.
“We commend in a big way the Governors of Enugu and Abia States, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for taking a leading step. However, the silence of the other governors is not a good one at all.
“Let us not wait till such a time we have a mass casualty and they will now begin to declare one-week mourning. We hereby send an SOS to the governors because these students belong to our Constituency. The time to act is now,” Okwu stated.
Meanwhile, when DAILY POST contacted the students’ leader, he stated that they were in a bad condition.
Only Enugu and Abia states have evacuated pupils, according to Ifechukwu, who also stressed that “kids are being slaughtered, students are being injured, especially my classmates.” Yesterday, one of the students was found dead.
“My office covers the five South-East states and the other two Igbo speaking states in the South-South, but as I am speaking to you, I can tell you authoritatively that apart from Enugu and Abia we have not heard from the other five states. The other states have kept mum, politicized the whole thing and we got nothing on the ground from them.”
“We are using this medium to beg them for assistance, students should be evacuated, you cannot study in such a volatile environment,” he urged.
