Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, South-East NASS Caucus leader.
The alleged ethnic profiling of the Ndigbo in Lagos State and other places in the South-West must be stopped, said the South-East Caucus of the National Assembly
The caucus said even though the South-East geo-political zone had largely not participated in the nationwide protest, the Ndigbo have been targeted.
The South-East legislators responded to a post on X that issued the Igbo one-month ultimatum to relocate their businesses from Lagos and South-West.
In a statement on Friday, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Igariwey Enwo, leaders of the South-East Caucus in the Senate and House of Representatives, said the “ethnic profiling” must stop.
Read the statement: “We are, therefore, surprised and disappointed that Igbos are still made scapegoats and targeted as instigators of protests, as shown in several statements (such as the Igbo Must Go hashtag and call by a certain ‘Lagospedia’ X (Twitter) handle and videos seen online.
“This dangerous ethnic profiling is unwarranted and must stop. It was such profiling that led to the millions of deaths in Nigeria from the 1950s to the unfortunate civil war in 1967 to 1970.
“Elsewhere in Africa, it led to the genocide in Rwanda and the xenophobia in South Africa. Such should not be our fate again in Nigeria.
“We demand, therefore, that the security agencies bring to book the purveyors of these hate speeches in line with the Cybercrimes Act and criminal laws of the country”.
They asked ndigbo across the country to remain law-abiding and not join the protest.
