Ndigbo Lagos Condemns attack on Ekweremadu

Mon, Aug 19, 2019
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By Benprince Ezeh

NDIGBO Lagos has joined millions of Ndigbo and indeed Nigerians to condemn the attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu by some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

In a statement released on Monday in Lagos, the organisation expressed shock and consternation on the events of Saturday August 17, in Germany.

Ndigbo Lagos
Ndigbo Lagos

The group noted that the basic values of Ndigbo are respect for leadership and the elderly. That same value system also demands deployment of wisdom and tact (ako na uche) in all our public engagements.

“Senator Ekweremadu was on a noble mission, bringing Ofo Igbo and love to our kits and kin, who despite being on sojourn was keeping the Igbo sacred tradition of celebrating our God by giving thanks to him for a new life as symbolized by the New Yam Festival.

“Clearly Ike Ekweremadu is an established Statesman in his own right, a national leader and by age, of a father-status to many of his attackers. By physically manhandling the Distinguished Senator and removing his cap those “miscreants” lost purpose, over-reached themselves and shamed the Igbo Nation,” the statement said.

According to the group, it is in the inviolability of known values that an Igbo saying states that a young person, who fells the father in a wrestling match would not only have committed sacrilege, but shall also be blinded by the loins-of-age.

 

– Aug. 19, 2019 @ 17:51 GMT |

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