The Kano State Police Command has assured Igbos in the state of adequate security of their lives and property.
The State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Yusuf, gave the assurance during a meeting with leaders of Igbo community in the state, on Monday and was contained in a statement issued by the Command’s spokesperson, Magaji Majiya.
Majiya, in the statement quoted the commissioner as saying, “The meeting is to assure you of the commitment of the command toward ensuring safety of your lives and properties as every other Nigerian living in the State.’’
The Command urged Igbos resident in the state to remain calm, continue to carry out their businesses lawfully and live peacefully with other ethnic groups.
Recall that the spokesperson of the Northern Coalition group, Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, Abdulaziz Suleiman, had ordered Igbos to vacate the region in three months.
Speaking last week Tuesday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern Nigeria was tired of coexisting with the Igbos and asked that, “all Igbos currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria are hereby served notice to relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the East are advised likewise.
“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra by the unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has lately assumed another alarming twist which involved the forceful lockdown of activities and denial of other people’s right to free movement in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert sponsors.”
