Northerners,
especially Hausas residents in Onitsha in Anambra State, have fled to
various security formations in the state and neighbouring Delta State
capital of Asaba for fear of possible reprisal attack following Monday’s
Kano bus blasts in Kano in which many Igbo have been killed.
The
fears came after the news of the bomb blast filtered in and so
northerners hurriedly closed down their shops at bridge head in Ose
Okwodu and other parts of the city and take refuge at the 302 Artillery
Regiment Barracks and other police stations.
Although
nobody or group was said to have carried any reprisal attack on members
of Arewa community in Onitsha or any part of the state, they became
frightened that given the degree of the bomb blast and its intentional
nature, members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB) and other people in the state will take up arms
against them.
However,
a security source who pleaded anonymity said they got information that
there could be violent attack on non indigenes in the commercial city of
Onitsha and all security outfits mobilized to safeguard the lives and
property of the northerners in the state.
But
leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra ( MASSOB) Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has dismissed any possible
reprisal in the entire southeast and called for calm.
Uwazuruike
told newsmen that there will be no retaliation attack on Hausa
residents in various cities across the southeast. “We are not known for
bloodletting and Ndigbo cannot be cowed into shedding blood but we want
an end to this senseless bloodletting of Igbos in the north in whatever
name it is called”, he said.
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