Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Udom Ekpoudom, has warned Biafra agitators and Northern youths issuing threats and provocative speeches against Nigeria to take caution.
He said while it was easy to speak of violence, such persons will run away if they witnessed bloodletting on a large scale.
He faulted the sit-at-home order issued by Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), saying the order also contravened the law.
Ekpoudom said IPOB had no constitutional authority to order a section of the country to sit at home without the consent of the Federal Government, adding that “It amounts to running a parallel government.”
”It is an indirect call for division of the country which our founding fathers and nationalists suffered and died to protect”, he told Vanguard.
“It’s unfortunate that those people clamoring for war are being sponsored by people who don’t have value for this country or are having dual citizenship”, he added.
Ekpoudom, however, insisted that Nigeria needed to be restructured based on the principles of federalism to allow ethnic nationalities manage their own resources.
“This constitution came into effect on the first of January 1914. Subsequent inputs are only amendments here and there.
“We are still under colonial administration when we consider the ingredients of the existing constitution. There is need to restructure the country.”
