Ebiri’s threat comes amid nationwide outrage generated by a Nigerian woman based in Ontario, Canada, Amaka Patience Sonnberger’s threat and call for mass poisoning of Yoruba and Benin people.
A US-based leader of a Yoruba group, Yoruba First, Gbomka Ebiri, has threatened to invade Edo State and kidnap their monarch, rape his wife and chase him to Calabar in Cross River State.
The Yoruba group leader whose LinkedIn profile shows that he was a student at University of Calicut from 2013-2018, and is based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, made the threat during a social media live meeting.
In the disturbing audio of the live meeting posted on X by a user with the account, @Voiceofigbos, Ebiri said, "I will invade Edo and kidnap your king and have his wife r@ped and chase him to Calabar like the white people did."
SaharaReporters called the mobile number of the spokesperson for the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abdurrahman Balogun, for comments on the action the commission will take against Ebiri, but he did not answer. He had also not replied to a text message sent to him at the time of filing this report.
Ebiri’s threat comes amid nationwide outrage generated by a Nigerian woman based in Ontario, Canada, Amaka Patience Sonnberger’s threat and call for mass poisoning of Yoruba and Benin people.
Sonnberger, who made the call in a TikTok live meeting video making the rounds on social media, had vowed to start poisoning Yoruba and Benin people at her place of work.
Her threat generated a nationwide outrage with the Nigerian House of Representatives and the NiDCOM taking swift actions by writing to the Canadian authorities which led to her arrest.
Since Sonnberger’s made the threat against Yoruba and Benin people and the swift actions of the Nigerian authorities, there have been calls by some Nigerians for the arrest of President Bola Tinubu’s aide, Bayo Onanuga and one of the President’s loyalists, MC Oluomo, and others from different parts of the country who have made one threat or the other or hate comments against Igbo people or other tribes.