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Dim C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu
Office of Eze Igbo
4 Isiuzo Street
Independence Layout
Enugu
IGBO
SOLIDARITY WITH Dim C. ODUMEGWU-OJUKWU
We are proud to have you as the undisputed and genuine leader of Ndi Igbo. You are our leader by the grace of
God. By popular acclamation, you are Eze Igbo.
Because you are the rallying point of Igbo aspirations and Igbo pride, you have our total support as you defend
your own constitutional rights and the rights of MASSOB members unlawfully detained in the Nigerian Gulag. Today,
across the country, especially in parts of it sometimes referred to as the "Niger-Delta," people are
picking up arms to fight for the same freedoms and rights to life and liberty for which you declared the Republic
of Biafra more than thirty-seven years ago.
In your current encounter with the Nigerian security outfit, the SSS, we are proud of your tenacity and insistence
that the Nigerian State comply with the law and proper procedures before depriving any citizen of constitutionally
protected freedoms. We believe that if those freedoms are so easily taken away from one of your standing and
stature, there will be no hope for those less privileged in our society. In that sense, your stand is a sacrifice
you are making for all those who may in the future become targets of a pernicious state apparatuses such as the
SSS.
We applaud you for standing up for Igbo security and survival. We join your call to the Nigerian State to remove
all obstacles to the convocation of a conference of nationalities, a sovereign national conference where the constituent
parts of the country will decide what manner of association, if any, should bind them.
We are grateful for your leadership in fighting to stop genocide against our people from 1966 to 1970. Unfortunately,
the Nigerian State is fanning another conflagration, having learned nothing from that costly war. In this new
struggle, fought not with guns and bayonets, but with knowledge carefully deployed over ignorance, you will have
our support. The regime in Abuja will hear from around the world if it continues to trample upon the rights of
the citizens that the constitution is designed to protect.
We give you our unalloyed support in your effort to create a better future for Ndi Igbo. Your handling of the
SSS harassment has served to ensure that no one in Nigeria operates with the illusion that Ndi Igbo tolerate insult
against their own.
Contacts:
ICIO
Fada Jon Ofoegbu Ukaegbu, Ph.D. - (Coordinator)
Ambrose Ehirim - (Director of Public Affairs)
Chinedu Ibe - (Secretary)
(240) 286-2693.
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ICIO
The International Coalition of
Igbo Organizations
Igbo Solidarity with Dim C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu
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