Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has raised concerns about his personal safety and the security of his residence.
He has alleged that certain individuals within the Igbo community, whom he describes as being against the interests of the Igbo people, have made plans to harm him or even set his house on fire.
Iwuanyanwu made these claims during a briefing held at the Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat in Enugu on Wednesday. He believes that these individuals are somehow connected to the death of his predecessor, Prof. George Obiozor.
He said:
“This has become very dangerous. These people have carried this too far. Some time ago, I got some information that some people were coming to burn my house; that people said they were hired to come and burn my house.
“Some people also said they were hired to come and kill me; all sorts of stories like that. And I started asking myself: what is it that I have done that would warrant that my house should be burned, that I should be killed?
“I told those people that they shouldn’t worry. Fortunately, one of them said that the person they hired said that I trained his brother in the university. You know I had a scholarship scheme that trained over 5, 000 young people in the university. So he said his brother was trained by me and so he cannot burn my house.
“I feel sad that I should be confronted by some of these types of threats just because I want to serve my people.”
