Former Minister of Police Affairs, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, has warned that if the threat by Northern youths asking Igbos to vacate their region is pushed too far, the Rwanda experience will be a child’s play.
Bozimo issued the warning over the weekend in Warri, Delta State when a delegation of the United States Consulate, led by Paul Hines, Political and Economic Adviser to the Consul General, payed him a visit to find out how Niger Delta region was doing under the leadership of Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo.
The delegate had also visited former national chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, His Majesty, Charles Ayemi-Botu, with the same aim of finding out how the region was fairing under Osinbajo’s leadership.
Addressing the delegation, Bozimo said, “The similarity with the experience of 1966/67 is too close. How do you differentiate between Igbo and South-South people? We are worried because if these threats are pushed too far, Rwanda will be a child’s play.”
Bozimo also disclosed that the people of the Niger Delta were worried by the slow response of the Federal Government to the long envisaged dialogue with Pan Niger-Delta Forum, PANDEF.
“We appeal to the US to tell the Nigerian President that their pace is slow. Ogoni clean-up has been slow, the maritime varsity is slow. Something has to be done. It is a major challenge to the region,” he said.
