APPROPRIATE AGENCIES MUST CALL IN FFK AND DEMAND HE STOPS HIS HATEFUL SPEECHES- OBY EZEKWESILI'

APPROPRIATE AGENCIES MUST CALL IN FFK AND 

DEMAND HE STOPS HIS HATEFUL SPEECHES- OBY 

EZEKWESILI''

A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the government to arrest her ex-colleague, Femi Fani-Kayode, over opinion articles targeted at the Igbo ethnic group published by the later.

“If we had a functioning nation state with credible institutions they should by today take him in to restrain events,” Mrs Ezekwesili said.

She added, “The relevant agency of the FG must take in Femi Fani-Kayode and restrain him from making further hateful speeches against the Igbos.”

Mr. Fani-Kayode had written a controversial opinion piece entitled “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo” in what appears a reaction to the heated debate that followed Lagos’ repatriation of some destitute people believed to be of Anambra origin to Onitsha, a popular market town in the state.

In the “thoroughly candid and brutally frank” piece, Mr. Fani-Kayode touched on Nigeria’s turbulent history and what he considered the place of the Igbo in it all.

The article generated mixed reactions across the country, with some Igbo intellectuals publishing several counter articles lampooning the former minister.

The former minister followed up Tuesday with another piece which now appears to have triggered another round of controversy.

Mrs. Ezekwesili, also a former vice president at the World Bank, has now called on authorities to move against Mr. Fani-Kayode over the articles which she considers hateful and divisive.

Both Mr. Fani-kayode and Mrs. Ezekwesili served under the Olusegun Obasanjo administration as ministers.

Here are some of her tweets:

The relevant agency of the FG must take in Femi Fani Kayode and restrain him from making further hateful speeches against the Igbos...
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks


As an individual &his former colleague, I have nothing but empathy & love in my heart to counter his toxic speeches but FG must restrain him
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks

The current slippery slope of our country cannot be allowed to worsen with the kind of hateful speeches Fani Kayode has been releasing.
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks

FG must stop this stoking of hate-flame for an ethnic group that had once been tragically massacred in an avoidable civil war. Do it NOW!
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks

Freedom of speech is not to be confused for Freedom to stoke hatred for people of different ethnic, religious or ideological persuasion.
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks

I am yet to be persuaded that Nigeria's problem is Ethnic. Rather we battle with the curse of a CRASS elite class east-west-north-south.
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks 

Appropriate agency of State must call in Fani Kayode now & demand he stops forthwith any more HATEFUL SPEECHES that EXPRESSLY TARGET Igbos.
oby ezekwesili @obyezeks