Former Lagos State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav said it was the Igbos that started the quit notice and not the Arewa Youths.
He made the disclosure while reacting to the eviction order by Arewa Youths to the Igbos to vacate the northern region on or before October 1, 2017.
He condemned the order as a recipe for another civil war in Nigeria. Speaking to Daily Sun, the former Lagos State Police boss gave details about the issuing of quit notices started in Nigeria which dates back to the first military coup led by General Aguiyi Ironsi which targeted only a particular section of the country's leaders and military officers.
His words:''They must have issued the notice out of anger and frustration because we all know what had happened in this country. Every person who was born before 1960 knows exactly what has happened in this country. Let me go back to this painful history although people may not like to hear it. We had this problem when there was military coup and only a section of this country was targeted and their leaders and senior military officers were killed by a section of the society and these people happened to be the Igbo.''
''Aguyi Ironsi was made the President. He came and unified the whole country without consultation with anybody. Then there was this counter coup and that was when the problem started and the Arewa people started agitating that ‘Araba’ ‘Araba’. That was the genesis of the problem. As regards asking people to go back to their place of origin, it is not the Arewa people that started it. It was the Igbo that started it. It was the Igbo who invited every Igbo man living in other places to go back to the east. And that was the beginning of the war. And that was when I was a young police inspector. That was why we were transferred from Lagos to Kaduna to replace those Igbo that answered to that call.''
''So, the call by the Arewa Youths is reminding us of the sad old days and it is not good. But as I said, they must have done it out of anger and frustration because upon all that these Igbo have gained in this country, everyday they keep insulting and abusing us; calling us all manner of names and we have distinguished Nigerians among the Igbo who ordinarily should call these people to order but they are not calling them to order. And this too is escalating.''
''I remembered I saw a video where Ojukwu said he did not regret fighting for Biafra but he also advised the Igbo that nobody should try to do that again because with the number of people who died and the number of those who lost their properties, it was not worth it. He said in that video that he was proud to lead the Biafran war but that he wouldn’t advise anybody to go that way again. But when Kanu started, nobody among the prominent Igbo said anything to condemn it. They were allowing Kanu to say whatever he wants. So, I think that was why the Arewa youths have decided to say what they are saying. But I want to appeal to all the leaders in this country, be it Igbo leaders, Arewa leaders, Yoruba leaders and others to try and douse this tension. If the Arewa youths should insist that Igbo should go back to their area, we are creating another avenue for civil war. And no country fights two civil wars and survives it.''
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