An Igbo socio-cultural group, Igbo for Nigeria Movement (INM) has berated some identified Igbo elites and organizations for channeling resources meant for the development of the region to sponsorship of the misguided agitation for secession spearheaded by IPOB.
The national leader of the group, Mazi Ifeanyi Igwe who made the group's position known in a press statement held at the weekend called on the Federal Government to urgently probe and bring to book sponsors of the group to serve as deterrent to those seeking to destabilize the region.
Igwe listed the identified sponsors of IPOB to include "Amnesty International, Alaigbo Development Foundation, Igbo Youth Movement, The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and US Embassy in Nigeria". He also accused the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano of covertly supporting the campaign of the group by donating a brand new car to the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
The leader of the group further called on the EFCC to investigate governors of other states in the region to ascertain whether they made similar donations to Kanu.
The group lamented that despite huge budgetary allocations to the region as well as abundant natural resources, public office holders in the area have continued to misappropriate the funds and have taken to sponsorship of IPOB to divert attention.
“The five south-east states are not governed by Hausa-Fulani or Yoruba; they have been governed by our own blood since the return to civil rule in 1999. What this recent development is telling us is that the governors have been doling out their states’ money to Biafra agitators under different covers,” he said.
