INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE ORDERS ARREST OF NORTHERN YOUTHS
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State to investigate and arrest members of the Coalition of Northern Youths for issuing an ultimatum to South Easterners living in the North. The Coalition of Northern Youths on June 6, at a news conference in Kaduna, gave a three-month ultimatum to South Easterners living in the North to leave. It had also ordered Northerners living in the south eastern part of the country to return to the North. The group attributed the ultimatum to the constant agitation by the Igbo ethnic group to have their own independent country. The IG gave the order at a meeting with Commissioners of Police and other high ranking officers on Thursday in Abuja. He warned that no individual or group of persons had the right to ask any individual to leave his or her place of residence in any part of the country. He ordered other state commissioners of police in the North and assistant inspectors-...