Biafra: You’re Lawless, South East Traders Tell Kanu

South-East Traders Association has described the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a lawless group. The association also disowned the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and other agitators of Biafra.In a press statement signed the President, South East Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, Okwudili Ezenwankwo and its Secretary, Temple Udeh, the association decried the call by IPOB for closure of markets across the South East zone of the country.The statement added that closure of markets would make people believe that the traders are involved in the “lawless struggle” of IPOB.Here is the statement: “We are constrained to react to the continuous calls for close of businesses in the zone in protest and solidarity for Biafra.“Traders in the South-East wish to dissociate ourselves from MASSOB and IPOB. We have nothing to do whatsoever with these lawless groups.“The difficulties and hardship, which traders and residents in general suffer during these protests, had made the traders to react to the situation and the development and make its position very clear and unambiguous.“The invasion of markets and other business outfits and the destruction of property of individuals like shops and vehicles in the name of pro-Biafra protest is not only condemnable but unacceptable.“We are yet to understand the wisdom in the protest where the properties and other valuables and belongings of the Igbo are either vandalised or destroyed by fellow Igbo in the name of Pro-Biafra protest.“The hardship, which the Igbo that relocated from the North-East in the wake of Boko Haram insurgency are passing through, is still staring every right thinking Igbo man in the face, yet the Pro-Biafra groups are calling other Igbo doing their businesses in other parts of Nigeria to relocate to the South-East. This doesn’t make any sense.“No particular zone in this country is an island and none can successfully develop without inter-relationship with the others.“Times are hard and the traders condemn, in strong terms, any action, by any group or individual, that will further aggravate the already very difficult times experienced by traders in this area.“The traders are totally not in support of any protest that will further adversely affect the people of the South-East.“We want to state clearly that traders in the South East are solidly in support of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.”“Traders in the zone shall not support any action that will aggravate the hardship already being experienced by Nigerians”.