Amaka Sunnberger
By Tony Folarin
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said the Canada-based Nigerian woman who has vowed mass killing of the Yoruba and Benin people in Canada is not an Igbo woman.
The woman, identified as Amaka Sunnberger, in a video that has gone viral threatened to poison any Yoruba or Benin person she came across at her workplace.
“Record me very well; it’s time to start poisoning the Yoruba and the Benin. Put poison for all una food for work. Put poison for una water, make una dey kpai one by one,” the woman said in Pidgin English.
It appeared she made the comment during a virtual meeting on TikTok. Other voices could be heard interjecting and prodding her. The woman claimed that her comment was in response to the “hate” against the Igbo.
“I want make Ndi Igbo get that heart of wickedness. Una too dey quiet,” the woman said, addressing other participants. “Enough is enough! If you have any means of kpaing them, kpai them commot for road.”
Abike Dabiri, the chairperson of a federal agency, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, made this known Wednesday that a group of Nigerians in Canada were reporting the woman to the Canadian authorities.
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has, however, stated that there was no enough evidence that the woman was Igbo, saying that she did not in any way portray the Igbo character of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure and equanimity.
Alex Ogbonnia, the Ohanaeze’s spokesperson, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu. He described the woman as a “miscreant”.
Mr Ogbonnia said Ohanaeze have received calls from prominent Nigerians who expressed fears on the possibility of some persons carrying o “There is no Igbo man or woman that will contemplate throwing a stone in a full market for fear of who shall be the victim as the Igbo travel more than any ethnic group in Africa.
“They also create homes away from home wherever they are found. They mix up or integrate with the local community and contribute to developing every community they find themselves.
“Based on the foregoing, two major derivatives emerge: if one should poison food in Lagos or Ibadan or Benin, is there any guarantee that the first victim will not be Igbo?” Mr Ogbonnia said.
The Ohanaeze’s spokesperson said the woman in the video must be a “depressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestration”.
He disclosed that the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okey Emuchay, has condemned the video.
“Ohanaeze seizes this opportunity to enlighten the younger generations that the Igbo, Edo and Yoruba share a lot in common. We share in cultural affinity, cosmology, morphology, and hospitality.
“The age-long inter-marriages between the Igbo, Yoruba and Edo have produced well accomplished great grandchildren,” he said.
