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Ohanaeze backs Okorocha on ID card for northerners
By Unknown 20:40
The Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndi’gbo, has backed Governor Rochas Okorocha over the Imo State Government’s plan to register northerners in the state and issue them identity cards.
Shortly after security forces apprehended 486 northerners suspected to be Boko Haram members in Abia State, one of whom was a wanted key member of the sect, the Imo State Regime had proposed issuance of identity cards to northerners in the state as a way of averting insurgents from the state.
The Senate and the apex body of the North, Arewa Consultative Forum, had criticised the state regime for the registration exercise.
The upper chamber, on Thursday, categorically called on President Goodluck Jonathan to direct that security agencies must not partner the state regime on the policy. It withal called on Okorocha to stop the policy “immediately.”
The National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze, Chris Oganah, who verbalized with our correspondent on Friday, verbalized the national identity card scheme was not enough in obviating terrorism. He verbalized each state should have a database for residents “for orchestrating purposes.”
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