Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Chikwendu Kalu, has declared that actions of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, put millions of Igbo lives at risk.
He lamented that the agitation by the Nnamdi Kanu-led group was not being done within the provisions of the law.
Kalu recalled that the IPOB/Army clash in Abia that kept the state in the news was a trying moment for the state.
“I was worried but I thank God for what He was able to use the governor to achieve during that period”, he told Vanguard.
“What saved the situation was the curfew he imposed when the military came and that calmed the situation.
“But let me point out that the agitation on the part of Nnamdi Kanu was not done within the ambit of the law.
“If you have any grievance, it is incumbent on you to explore all legal avenues to redress it. It is not something you begin to militarize the environment to achieve.
“That is exactly what happened. Immediately after the curfew was imposed, what the House did was to condemn Kanu and adopted the position of the South-East governors by proscribing IPOB.
“The young man possibly didn’t know that as at the time he was doing those things, 11.6million Igbos live outside Abia.
“They live in all states of the north and if anything had happened to the few northerners that were in Abia, those 11.6million Igbos may have come to harm,” he added.
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