ILE-IFE: Journalist group alerts on video asking for revenge

The Journalists for Democratic Rights, JODER, has warned the authorities to beware of some organized armed groups
planning revenge attacks following the ethnic crisis at Ile-Ife.
 It was the second time JODER would be sounding the note
 of warning in two weeks.

In a statement at the weekend, JODER alerted to another
version of a video clip calling for revenge. The new video
 seen on Thursday is the second of such hate video being circulated with intent to create a sense of siege that will 
spur violence”, the group said.

“There are two dangerous video clips in circulation. The two
 of them are being circulated mostly in northern parts of the
country calling on Muslims to rise up and revenge”, the
statement signed by JODER’s Assistant Programme Officer, Mr Akinwale Kasali said. He said the video clips were sent
 to JODER by northerners working with JODER on peace-building across the country. He observed that since the
 March 7 crisis, there had been tension and that the 
disputants were desperately waiting for an opportunity to renew hostilities. Meanwhile, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, yesterday, condemned the steps taken by Police Inspector General Ibrahim Idris on the Ile-Ife crisis.

Reacting to the claim that Yoruba were arrested and paraded
in Abuja, while their Hausa counterparts in the crisis were
ignored in the Ile-Ife crisis, Onuesoke said the IGP seemed to
be biased in the fracas that involved the two tribes.

Onuesoke said Nigerians were disturbed at the massive 
media publication accusing the IG of ordering the mass 
arrest of the Yoruba even when it was clear the crisis in the ancient town was between two major ethnic nationalities. He said it was unfortunate that the IGP chose to arrest only the Yoruba together with their traditional rulers , parading them
 in Abuja, far away from where the crisis occurred.