The chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has unveiled the woman in a viral video identity of a woman in Canada who allegedly threatened to kill Nigerians – especially Yoruba and Benin(Edo) extractions, living in the country.
The woman, identified as Amaka Patience Sunnberger, allegedly made the threats during a TikTok live session using the username Anyi_Anambra7 and account handle @ehizele123.
In the viral video, Amaka is heard speaking largely in Pidgin English to scores of virtual audience.
In the video, the woman said, “Record me, it’s time to start poisoning the meals of the Yorubas and Benin people, poison their food and drinks at work so they can begin to die one by one. You won’t all die at once, you’ll get sick first. I will put pesticides in your water and food. It will not be well with you. The hate in your hearts will last forever.”
She also went on to make further threats, stating, “If I go to work tomorrow, I will put it (rat poison) in the Yoruba people’s food. Go and tell the government, I am in Ontario, Canada. Hurry. Soon, you will hear that the Yorubas and Benin people have died. I said it. I want Igbo people to be wicked, you are too soft-hearted. Enough is enough. If you have a means of killing them, kill them because they are of no use to the society.”
The worrisome nature of the video has touched off outrage from many viewers.
An X user who shared the video described it as “disturbing.”
But responding to the video, Dabiri-Erewa confirmed that a group of Nigerians in Canada is taking action by reporting the woman to the relevant authorities.
The NIDCOM boss posted on social media, “This is the picture of the lady behind the voice. Amaka Patience Sunnberger. She has deleted her TikTok account and a group of Nigerians in Canada are reporting her officially to the relevant authorities in Canada. Thanks for alerting everyone.”
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has condemned a viral video on social media prodding some people from the South East geopolitical zone to poison the foods of Nigerians in other parts of the country.
The purveyor of the video had “promised to encourage others from the South East to poison some Nigerians,” and urged them to “get heart of wickedness and to start poisoning them.”
However, Ohanaeze, in a release signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, said it would have ignored the social media video clip as coming from a “deranged psychopath or one of the fictitious narratives which with the Internet device is twisted, dressed, coated and delivered to the unsuspecting and obliging public”, adding that the clarification was to put the records straight.
Ohanaeze said, “Our telephones have been inundated by various eminent persons who have expressed fears of the possibility of some persons carrying out the threats.
“It therefore becomes imperative to respond, especially when the National Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, Mr Jare Ajayi, forwarded the clip and requested for prompt action.
“She does not in any way portray the Igbo character of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure and equanimity.
“There is no Igbo man or woman that will contemplate throwing stones in a full market for the fear of who shall be the victim.
“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 in.
“If one should poison food in Lagos or Ibadan or Benin, is there any guarantee that the first victim will not be Igbo?
“The lady must be a depressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestration.”
The Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, in the statement, frowned at the video tape on social media. Emuchay condemned both the video content and the perpetrator as a mischief-maker.
“They are the merchants of woes who deploy despicable and incendiary rhetoric to create ethnic mistrusts and conflicts where none exists.
“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 grand-children.
“In spite of an infinitesimal de-enculturated deviant category amongst the three ethnics, the Aguiyi Ironsi-Fajuyi episode at Ibadan on July 29, 1966 exemplifies the inviolable fraternity, amity, and camaraderie that must always be elevated, extolled and venerated amongst the groups at all times.
“Ohanaeze assured the Afenifere, the entire Yoruba and Edo brothers that the threat from the depraved mind should be ignored as idiotic, meaningless and vacuous.
“Throughout history, proposals by the maladjusted are always dead on arrival. We use this opportunity to call on the security agencies in Nigeria to trace the perpetrators of this macabre dance to face the full weight of the law.”
