A youth group in the Niger Delta has threatened to destroy properties of Igbo people in their domain if members of the Indigenous People of Biafra attack their man, Rotimi Amaechi again.
The Minister of Transport was said to have been attacked during a recent trip abroad.
IPOB claimed responsibility for the action.
The group called the Concerned Youths of Niger Delta (CYND) were said to be drawn from the six Niger Delta states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Cross River and Edo.
Describing the attack on Amaechi as a ‘national embarrassment’, the group led by Commander Chikaru Oronda Ndamati, gave IPOB 7 days to issue an apology to the victim while also appealing to the Federal Government “to take the matter before the international community to compel world leaders to always beef up security around Nigerian leaders on foreign trips”.
Ndamati and his men further noted:
“The IPOB should remember that all the Igbos in South-South have and do businesses in Rivers State particularly in Ikwere land, which happens to be Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s ethnic nationality.
“We are going to destroy all the Igbo properties in Ikwere land and Niger Delta if they try it again. Ikwere ethnic nationality has four Local Government Areas in Rivers state including Port Harcourt City, Obio Akpor, Emohua and Ikwere Echie Local Governments.
“Having accepted the responsibility of the attack on Amaechi in Spain, IPOB should also be ready to take full responsibility for any reaction that will come out from their dastardly act if IPOB fails to tender apology within seven days.”
