News Updates: Nominate Igbo as Inspector General Police - Igbo socio-political group tells Buhari

The World Igbo Peoples Assembly (WIPAS), an Igbo socio-political party, has called on President Muhammad Buhari-led federal government to name an Igbo man as the next Police Inspector General, IGP. This is as Mohammed Adamu is gradually ending the tenure of the incumbent IGP. 

The Igbo party also hailed Major General Leo Irabor's selection as Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff and expressed profound faith that the new Defence Helmsman would use his wealth of expertise to bring an end to the plethora of security problems threatening Nigeria's stability, combined with the untiring efforts of government and security agencies. 

WIPAS posited that notwithstanding General Irabor’s meritorious appointment, there is an orchestrated attempt to shortchange the Igbo of South East by the powers that be. The Igbo sociopolitical organization, made the call in a press release signed and issued to newsmen by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu on Saturday.

According to the World Igbo Peoples Assembly, “each time opportunities at the centre arises, effort is made to deny it the Igbos of South East. We don’t know why this is so, but it has got to stop.”

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WIPAS lamented the deaths of innocent people in Orlu over the conflict between the Eastern Security Network, ESN, and the Army, and advised the Army to comply with the rules of engagement rather than to seek trouble with the ESN. 

The Eastern Security Network, ESN, was advised by the Igbo Assembly to be calm and avoid any action that would detract from its set goal of ensuring sanitation in the forests in the east. 

The Igbo group advised all political parties on the 2023 presidency to zone its presidential seat to the Igbo land and, in particular, to the southeast. 

In the interest of the nation, WIPAS asked all individuals aspiring to the position outside Igbo land to rescind the decision.