Hardship: We’ll rather protest for Kanu’s release – Southeast group

  By Matthew Atungwu   A pro-Biafra group under the aegis of the South East Renewed Hope Ambassadors, SERHA, disassociated itself from t...

 

By Matthew Atungwu

 

A pro-Biafra group under the aegis of the South East Renewed Hope Ambassadors, SERHA, disassociated itself from the planned #EndBadGovernance# nationwide protest slated for August 1, 2024, saying the people of the Southeast have nothing to benefit from it.

 

The group claimed that the only valid reason to gather was to protest the continuous detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu and demand his release.

 

SERHA claimed that Kanu is the only true Nigerian still held in detention and called on the people of the region not to participate in any form of protest that could worsen the security situation in the region and bring unrest to the country at large.

 

In a statement jointly signed by its President, Arinzechukwu Awogu, Anambra, Ugochukwu Ugwu, Vice President, Enugu, Nwogba Morgan and Secretary General, Ebonyi, Joseph Odumuko, Youths President, Abia, Mrs Lovett Emere, Imo, SERHA, urged the people of Southeast, to reflect on the past experiences where crisis and violence arising from the Western Region, saw the people of Southeast being the bearers of the brunt as it culminated in the Nigerian civil war that singled out the Igbos for annihilation.

 

It said the Civil War which started in 1967 and ended in the year 1970, left the entire Igbos in a state of ruins which they are yet to recover from and cannot afford to be sweet-tongued and cajoled into joining any such gang-up against the government of the day.

 

“Recall that during the same agitation in the West that all together led to the January 15, 1966 coup and the pogroms and eventually led to the brutal Nigerian Civil War, which particularly left a legacy of destruction against Ndigbo, death toll of over 3,000,000 people of Igbo origin, marginalization, economic setbacks/deprivations, criminal neglect/denials towards the people of the Eastern Region and in all of these; we suffered alone without the rest of the country coming together to protest against the travails of the South-East,” the group said.