FG’s cash transfer blatant confirmation of incurable hatred for Ndigbo – IPOB

THE Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that the way the Federal Government’s National Cash Transfer office is handling the disbursement of the cash transfer palliatives to poor Nigerians is provocative and a blatant confirmation of the incurable hatred for Ndigbo and indeed other Biafrans in the old Eastern region. 

Recall that the Conditional Cash Transfer is a program by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to support the poor and vulnerable with N5,000 (Five Thousand Naira) per month, to improve consumption, with the aim of reducing poverty, preventing the vulnerable households from falling further down the poverty line and building their resilience to withstand shocks

However, with the Coronavirus pandemic the government increased the amount to N20,000.

IPOB in a statement by Comrade Emma Powerful on Saturday accused that the National Cash Transfer office of bias in handling the disbursement of the palliatives with more beneficiaries from the Northern zones.

IPOB said: “A critical analysis of the information on the data base of the NCT office on the number of beneficiaries from the largesse on zone by zone basis reveals that South East is at the bottom of the table, just after South- South, while Northern zones are on top. This is provocative and a blatant confirmation that Nigeria has an incurable hatred for Ndigbo and indeed other Biafrans in the old Eastern region. 

“This continued rejection and humiliation of the people of old Eastern region is a confirmation that the federal government does not see us as part of Nigeria. Nigeria and her agency are making it more open for those who don’t know that Biafrans are not part of Nigeria.

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“It baffles IPOB why NCT office   limited the number of beneficiaries of the cash transfer from the federal government to mere 3253 in South East and 10,429 to South South. This is more annoying when juxtaposed with the number of beneficiaries from Northern zones and the South West zone. 

The records in the NCT office show that beneficiaries in the North West are 112,744 persons; North Central – 88,008; North East- 44,405; and South West – 39,134.

“What other information does this discrimination show, other than open rejection for South East and South South zones? Can the world now see why we earnestly yell for Biafra? 

“Our renewed and unwavering agitation for Biafra is anchored on the truth that we have been reduced to dehumanizing second class citizens in the Nigeria, which our fathers fought so hard to free from British colonialism.

“We shall not give up in our quest for Biafra until this task is achieved because that is only where our dignity security and justice as a people can be guaranteed. 

“We, therefore, call on our brothers and sisters who, for pecuniary gains, have continued to collaborate with our tormentors to wise up and join us in the great fight for our common liberation.

“Biafrans must fight vigorously to restore Biafra sovereignty at this point in time. While unprovoked and barbaric killing of Christians in the most dehumanizing form has continued unabated by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, Biafrans who constitute 95% of the Christian community in the country have also continued to suffer from political exclusion, criminal marginalization and deep hatred from the federal government led by President Buhari. 

“If the Buhari- led federal government can have the guts to discriminate against Nigerians in a time like this when there is global pandemic, at no time shall Biafrans expect love and equal treatment from the federal government.

“It is even more annoying considering the fact that the bulk of the resources that sustain Nigeria come from oil revenue in Biafra land. Again, majority of the individual donors towards the relief effort on Covid-19 pandemic also come from Biafra. What have we done to deserve this unending hatred by Nigerian?”