Northerners, particularly Hausa residents in Onitsha
in Anambra State, have taken refuge at various security formations in the state
and neighbouring Delta State for fear of possible reprisal attacks following
Monday’s bomb blasts at a motor park in Kano in which many South Easterners
were feared dead.
As news filtered in of the bomb blast in Kano, the
northerners hurriedly closed down their shops at bridge head in Ose Okwodu and
other parts of the city fled to the 302 Artillery Regiment Barracks and other
police stations in fear for their lives.
However, leader of the Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Chief Ralph Uwazuruike
has dismissed any possible reprisal in the entire southeast and called for
calm.
Uwazuruike told newsmen that there will be no
retaliation attack on Hausa residents in various cities across the southeast.
“We are not known for bloodletting and Ndigbo cannot be cowed into shedding
blood but we want an end to this senseless bloodletting of Igbos in the north
in whatever name it is called”, he said.
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