Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Amid growing insecurity in the country, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has raised alarm that forests in southern Nigeria have been surrounded by infiltrators.
He, therefore, warned communities in southern Nigeria particularly the South-East, to as a matter of urgency, mobilise their youths to comb every forest in their locality.
Prince Emmanuel who raised the alarm while speaking with our Correspondent, said it had become imperative for communities to comb their environments following credible intelligence that forests in the zone have been infiltrated and taken over by some stranger elements.
He said that every community should take the alarm very seriously to avoid being caught off-guard.
Said he, “Every community in the southern region should visit its forests. Town Unions should mobilise their youths as a matter of urgency to enter into their forests and find out what is going on there.
“No community should joke with this information. They must go to find out from what is happening right now in their forest.”
He urged everybody in the South to be security vigilant and resist any attempt by foreigners to take over their ancestral land.
