By Michael Chukwuebuka, Reporting
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has directed northerners to boycott goods and all businesses operated by the Igbo all over the North and other parts of the country.
This is in reaction to the previous purported ban by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ban and boycott of beef from cows reared by Fulani herdsmen in the South-East.
CNG, through its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said that IPOB’s order issued in a statement on Monday by one Emma Powerful, amounted to a grave provocation and serious threat to northern commercial interests in the South East and by extension, to the physical wellbeing of Northerners living as minorities among Igbo communities.
The CNG called for the total boycott of all businesses, goods and services operated by Igbo in the North effective from the same April 2022 directed by IPOB.
The CNG also called on northerners everywhere to decline support for any political party or formation or movement that has the active participation of South-East politicians.
“Since such targeted utterances have, in the past, been preludes to physical attacks on northerners and destruction of their properties particularly in the South East, we urge northern transporters and suppliers of goods to consider alternative trade routes to avoid the imminent risks that come with this IPOB threat.
“We warn that the North has had enough of the antagonism from the South East and its attack dog, the IPOB and will no longer remain passive under such deliberate and sustained attacks and will henceforth be forced to react to every provocation and unwarranted abuse and violations.
“All those who have no other useful vocation other than attacking northerners under the slightest pretext should know that our patience has reached its nadir.
“The North’s reticence in speaking out or taking action is not born out of fear or ignorance of how to respond in kind,” Suleiman warned.
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