Bishop Okonkwo rejects use of military might against IPOB

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Bishop Mike Okonkwo

Bishop Mike Okonkwo of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) says the deployment of soldiers to the Southeast by President Muhammadu Buhari to curtail the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was not right.

Speaking with the Vanguard newspaper in an interview, the TREM General Overseer admitted that agitations will always happen, but insisted the solution was not resorting to violence.

The respected cleric also criticized Buhari’s advisers and queried the recent NNPC appointments, among other things.

He said: “We should not use violence to resolve our differences. Agitations like the one we have in the South-East will come but the solution is not moving armoured tanks there.

“Like I said, these are not the days you use force or instruments of government to intimidate people because there are those who are willing to die. We should go…

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