The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned a viral video clip wherein a Canada-based lady, Amaka Endurance Sunnberger, made threatening feedback in opposition to Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin descent.
The group has referred to as on safety companies to hint the perpetrators of this “macabre dance” and guarantee they face the total weight of the regulation.
Within the video, the girl, talking in Pidgin English, mentioned, “Document me very nicely; it’s time to begin poisoning the Yoruba and the Benin. Put poison in all of your meals at work. Put poison in your water, so that you simply all die one after the other.”
Reacting to the video, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in a press release on Wednesday by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, said that whereas it may need ignored the video because the work of a “deranged psychopath” or one of many many fictitious narratives circulated on-line, considerations raised by others necessitated a response.
“It turns into crucial for Ohanaeze to reply, particularly since Mr Jare Ajayi, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, forwarded the clip and requested immediate motion.
“Firstly, there isn’t any adequate proof that the girl in query is Igbo. Her behaviour doesn’t replicate the Igbo traits of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure and equanimity. No Igbo individual would ponder throwing stones in a crowded marketplace for concern of who could be affected.
“In different phrases, the Igbo journey extra extensively than another African ethnic group. They create properties away from dwelling wherever they’re, combine with the local people, and contribute to the event of each place they discover themselves,” the assertion famous.
The organisation reminded the youthful era that the Igbo, Edo, and Yoruba share a lot in frequent, together with cultural affinity, cosmology, morphology, and hospitality.
“Ohanaeze seizes this chance to enlighten the youthful generations that the Igbo, Edo, and Yoruba share many similarities. We share cultural affinity, cosmology, morphology, and hospitality. The longstanding inter-marriages between the Igbo, Yoruba, and Edo have produced well-accomplished great-grandchildren,” the group added.
Ohanaeze assured Afenifere, the Yoruba, and Edo brothers that “the risk from this wicked thoughts needs to be dismissed as idiotic, meaningless, and vacuous. We add that, all through historical past, proposals by the maladjusted are at all times useless on arrival.