Soludo To Anambra In Diaspora:99% Of Kidnappers Arrested Are Igbo,Not Fulani
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, says nearly all suspected criminals arrested in the state in the last three years are of Igbo origin.
Soludo made the comment during a town hall meeting with Anambra indigenes in the diaspora, held at Metro Points Hotel in New Carrollton, Maryland, United States.
The governor said he had initially believed the narrative that herders were behind the violence and criminality in parts of the south-east.
“I have been in office for three years and three months. If we have arrested 100 criminals and kidnappers, 99.99% of them are Igbo youths,” the governor said.
“That was part of the lies pushed as propaganda, that the Fulanis were behind it all. That lie led our youths into kidnapping because it became the next lucrative job after ‘Yahoo’ and drug trafficking.”
Soludo said “Igbos are the ones kidnapping Igbos” and that most of the criminal camps dismantled by security agencies in the state were operated by people from the region.
He called on indigenes of the state in the diaspora to invest in their homeland and contribute their skills and resources to its development.
“Even those from other states now call it the ‘Anambra job’. They go to their villages, buy motorcycles, and come here to join the business. They get taken into the bush, trained in the act. But when they are eventually arrested, they claim it’s the Fulanis,” the governor added.
“I came with that same false narrative, that the Fulanis are invading our people, that they are just waiting for a whistle to be blown before they take over.
“Therefore, we thought we were the liberators. So we, Igbos, went into the bush to chase them out.
“But nobody asked how those claiming to be liberators survive in the forest for one, two, or even six months. How do they feed?
“I want you to quote me right — 99.99% of all the criminals we have arrested are Igbos. All these camps are Igbos.”
Source: TheCable
