By Aminu Kutama
Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has issued a caution against killing Northerners in the Southeast.
Baba-Ahmed said targeting and killing Northerners in the Southeast was dangerous.
He pointed out that such an action could worsen community relations in other parts of Nigeria.
In a tweet he posted on Thursday, the NEF spokesman said politicians looking for votes should openly condemn such acts. He also stressed that such action against Northerners must stop.
Baba-Ahmed wrote: “Targeting and killing of Northerners, particularly in the South-East, should be condemned, and must stop.
“It is very dangerous because it could worsen community relations in other parts of the country.
“We need to hear clear and emphatic condemnations from those who want our votes.”
SAHELIAN TIMES had earlier reported how members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), killed eight Nigeriens, on Monday when the assailants attacked a building at Orogwe, Owerri, occupied by mainly Hausa migrants from Nigeria and the Niger Republic.
The northerners said the building was attacked because IPOB took all of them living in the area to be migrants from the North, not knowing the victims were foreigners.
