Igbo youths under the aegis of the Igbo Youth Network on Sunday sent a Save-Our-Souls (SOS) message to the Federal Government to prevent further killing and destruction of property in parts of the country.
The group described as senseless, the murder of Igbos by criminals masquerading as Boko Haram in parts of Northern Nigeria.
The youths sent the message at a news conference in Owerri on the recent killing of Igbos and other Nigerians living in Kano.
The youths, who spoke through their leader, Cletus Amaraegbu, said that the killing and maiming of innocent people by the Boko Haram group had become worrisome.
They claimed that since the advent of the Boko Haram in 2010, Nigeria had lost over five thousand lives, majority of them Christians and Igbos.
The group noted that the Igbos had kept silent since the emergence of the sect but might not continue to keep quite given the latest incident on March 18.
