99 percent of the kidnappers and criminals arrested in Anambra state in the last three years are of Igbo origin, Governor Charles Soludo has said.
Speaking during a town hall meeting with Anambra indigenes in the Diaspora, held in the United States, Soludo dismissed claims that Fulani herdsmen were behind kidnapping in his state.
“I have been in office for three years and three months. If we have arrested 100 criminals and kidnappers, 99.99 percent of them are Igbo youths,” the governor said.
“That was part of the lies pushed as propaganda, that the Fulanis were behind it all. That lie led our youths into kidnapping because it became the next lucrative job after ‘Yahoo’ and drug trafficking.
“Igbo are the ones kidnapping Igbo, they are the ones killing Igbo. All these camps are Igbo youths. And by the way because I came with the same false narrative. The false narrative they gave us is Oh! the Fulanis, they’re invading our people, and they are now everywhere, they’re waiting for a whistle to be blown and they will take over.”
The governor called on indigenes of the state in the diaspora to invest in their homeland and contribute their skills and resources to its development.
He said: “Even those from other states now call it the ‘Anambra job’. They go to their villages, buy motorcycles, and come here to join the business. They get taken into the bush, trained in the act. But when they are eventually arrested, they claim it’s the Fulanis.
“I came with that same false narrative, that the Fulanis are invading our people, that they are just waiting for a whistle to be blown before they take over. Therefore, we thought we were the liberators. So we, Igbos, went into the bush to chase them out.
“But nobody asked how those claiming to be liberators survive in the forest for one, two, or even six months. How do they feed? I want you to quote me right — 99.99% of all the criminals we have arrested are Igbos. All these camps are Igbos.”
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