The South-East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA) yesterday stated that they are in total support of the pro-Biafra groups who are agitating for the restoration or actualization of Biafra republic but what they would not tolerate is the invasion of markets by the agitators.
They said contrary to media reports that they are against Biafra agitation, the traders, as core Igbo men and women are in support of the efforts to restore Biafra through non-violence means.
They shunned against violence agitation which the pro-biafrans recently embarked on during which they forcefully entered into the markets and harassed the traders for opening their shops.
President-General of SEAMATA, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo in a press statement jointly signed by the Secretary-General, Mr. Temple Udeh, noted that in as much as the traders support the movement for Biafran state, they are in total condemnation of a situation where the pro-Biafra agitators/protesters allowed themselves to be infiltrated by some miscreants who cashed in on the protest to loot and do all sorts of things in the markets.
They recalled that when it protested the alleged relocation of Boko Haram detainees to Anambra state, the protesters went on without harassing anybody, adding that when the entire South-East traders protested, mother protest went on in Ekwulobia stadium and no individual was molested, unlike the pro-Biafra protesters.
They stated,
That we all are Igbos both traders and protesters are not in contention, that the problem of one Igbo man shall attract the sympathy of the other is stressing the obvious. But it is against natural justice and fairness to create a more difficult problem as a solution to an existing one.
If the protests were in an open field or stadium, those that put the entire Igbo in this mess couldn’t have had the opportunity.
The protesters could even decide to sleep in the venue for days as are witnessed in other parts of the countries without disturbance.
The statement of the traders is for the protesters to leave the market. The traders never disowned anybody or group as reported in some quarters.
SEAMATA stated.
They said contrary to media reports that they are against Biafra agitation, the traders, as core Igbo men and women are in support of the efforts to restore Biafra through non-violence means.
They shunned against violence agitation which the pro-biafrans recently embarked on during which they forcefully entered into the markets and harassed the traders for opening their shops.
President-General of SEAMATA, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo in a press statement jointly signed by the Secretary-General, Mr. Temple Udeh, noted that in as much as the traders support the movement for Biafran state, they are in total condemnation of a situation where the pro-Biafra agitators/protesters allowed themselves to be infiltrated by some miscreants who cashed in on the protest to loot and do all sorts of things in the markets.
They recalled that when it protested the alleged relocation of Boko Haram detainees to Anambra state, the protesters went on without harassing anybody, adding that when the entire South-East traders protested, mother protest went on in Ekwulobia stadium and no individual was molested, unlike the pro-Biafra protesters.
They stated,
That we all are Igbos both traders and protesters are not in contention, that the problem of one Igbo man shall attract the sympathy of the other is stressing the obvious. But it is against natural justice and fairness to create a more difficult problem as a solution to an existing one.
If the protests were in an open field or stadium, those that put the entire Igbo in this mess couldn’t have had the opportunity.
The protesters could even decide to sleep in the venue for days as are witnessed in other parts of the countries without disturbance.
The statement of the traders is for the protesters to leave the market. The traders never disowned anybody or group as reported in some quarters.
SEAMATA stated.
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