Don’t Treat Biafrans Like Boko Haram, Afenifere Tells Buhari

Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against treating members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB like Boko Haram terrorist group.

Speaking through its National Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere said the order to Service Chiefs was a wrong approach towards maintaining peace and unity in the country.

Odumakin said, “I do not think the President should deal with Boko Haram and IPOB in the same breath. Boko Haram and IPOB are not the same.

“While Boko Haram is a terrorist organization that goes about bombing people and places, IPOB is an open organization.

“What IPOB has done is to call for a sit-at-home but Boko Haram is a terrorist group, except you want IPOB to go underground like Boko Haram.

“It is a wrong approach. You cannot treat Boko Haram and an open organization like IPOB in the same manner.”