Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
A league of Igbo Youth Lawyers has asked the Federal Government to desist from applying force in handling issues concerning the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other similar groups in the country.<\/p>\n
The group described the Biafra project as a promise and not a threat to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Delivering a paper titled \u201cPreserving corporate Nigeria, Issues and Evacuation\u201d during a town hall meeting in Awka, President of the group, Stanley Okafor, insisted application of force in resolving restiveness and insecurity in the country would rather aggravate the already tensed milieu.<\/p>\n
He decried the series of frustration people of the region have been subjected to over the decades, which he said would have been resolved through proper integration of the southeast into the Nigerian project.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe call on the government to review all actions in the last four years which have placed confrontation above dialogue as a means of resolving national difficulties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question of proper integration of the Igbo into the Nigerian project would continue to reverberate, and for those of us who continue to express optimism in the promise of a great Nigeria, nothing can be so assaulting as the constant show of overzealousness by security agencies in handling issues of civil agitation among our youths.<\/p>\n
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