By Dipo Olowookere
Federal Government has pledged to bear the full weight of the law on any individual or group violating the rights of citizens of the country.
This promise comes after some groups of northern youths threaten to reclaim properties of Igbo extraction in the north after the expiration of the three months’ notice they gave Ndigbos on Tuesday to leave the region.
Minister of Interior, Mr Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, in a statement signed by his Press Secretary, Mr Ehisienmen Osaigbovo, lamented the spate of such spurious and unwarranted calls for separation.
He called on all well-meaning Nigerians to go about their normal activities, stressing that citizens were free to go about their normal businesses and would not be harassed or deterred by any group or persons.
Mr Dambazau further advised the various ethnic groups to desist from flaming the embers of hate, animosity, discord and disharmony and adhere strictly to the teachings of our good values of religions and cultures that encourage good neighbourliness, national unity and Integration, and love for one another.
He also advised youth to avoid being “instrument of violence, animosity and disharmony among our citizens,” but should rather focus their attention and energies on actions that would engender national unity, integration and cohesion.
