ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has condemned in strong terms the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-East.
The secessionist group are currently enforcing a one-week sit-at-home across the region as a protest against the detention of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is still in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS.
On Wednesday, there was a disturbing viral video, which captured the enforcers of the one-week sit-at-home, beating some pupils and their teachers for disobeying the order.
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Reacting, Chimaroke, a former lawmaker, who represented the Enugu East Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly, blamed the development on “tribalism and religious bigotry”.
In a tweet on his official handle on Thursday, the former lawmaker wrote: “The decline and decline of Igbo civilization. Strange happenings in a strange land. How do we explain the Igbo flogging of school children, teachers and mothers? Offense?
“Igbo fulfilling the mythological trinity, Igbambo (Hustle)! Only a society that celebrates incompetence, half-knowledge and ignorance. All shrouded in the darkest eclipse of tribalism and religious bigotry”!