The State Security Service (SSS) in Plateau State has invited the President General of the Igbo Community in Jos, Mr. Innocent Asogwa, over the recent protests in the South- East and South-South region of the country demanding for the actualisation of the Biafran State.

Our correspondent was informed by Asogwa that the SSS only invited him to assure them that he will prevail over the Igbo Community in Plateau State not to join their counterpart, protesting for the State of Biafra in the South-East and South-South region of the country.

He, however, assured the Security Service that the Igbo Community in Plateau under his watch are law abiding, and would not do anything to jeopardise the fragile peace that is gradually returning to the State.

The new President General, who took over from his predecessor Mr. Okay Ezekwume few weeks ago, advised Ndigbo worldwide to seek legitimate redress with accordance to the laws on issues of marginalisation, rather than taken to protest.

Similarly, Mr. Achike Onochie Esq, President, Anambra Welfare Association in Plateau State has blamed the Federal Government over the recent protest, saying that the Biafra agitation is as a result of the oppressive tendencies against the Ndigbo in this present administration. “You cannot beat someone and at the same time stop the person from crying”, he said.

Onochie said, the President Buhari -led Federal Government is given credence to the agitation of Biafra, by excluding the Igbo nation from his government.

In his words: “Ndigbo has been marginalised in this present administration, simply because the APC led government felt they did not get as much votes from the south-east and south-south during the general election”, he stressed.

He, however, advised President Buhari to take urgent steps in addressing the issue before it escalates.

Meanwhile, the Director General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri, in Jos last weekend, during a one-day retreat organised for political office holders, advised the agitators of Biafra to seek the full realisation of their God given talents and potentials with a united Nigeria instead of seeking opportunities to draw the country backward.

Omeri gave a new directive to all the State Directors of the Agency in the affected states, urging them to seek creative and positive ways of engaging the youths of these areas on the need for unity, peace and progress, noting that Nigeria has since passed the period of ethnic and tribal consolidation and separation.

The NOA boss is quoted as saying “Nigeria has passed the period of calls for separation and self-determination. We fought and resolved that conflict with a commitment to ever remain together as a united people.

“What we must seek at this point is to join hands with the government to promote and build a just and secure society in which the opportunities are available to all despite our ethnic cultural differences”, he said.

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Biafra: Plateau DSS invites Igbo leader