Veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu, has said that Nigeria is better split.
He spoke in a telephone interview with a Broadway TV reporter after he was released by the Department of State Service (DSS).
Agu said Nigeria as presently constituted was not in favour of some sections of the country, while it favoured
the northern part of the country.
He said most of the ministries and agencies of government were dominated by the Hausa/Fulani while it was very hard to find people of Eastern extraction in appreciable numbers in the agencies.
He added that even the Yorubas were playing second fiddle, adding that such arrangements did not augur well for fairness.
Asked whether he was brutalized by the soldiers, he said he was not.
Recalling what happened on the day he was arrested, he said he was buying bread and distributing it to the less privileged when some junior soldiers came to disperse the crowd by shooting in the air.
He said he was not perturbed because it was not his first time of seeing guns and hearing bullets. According to him trouble started when they commanded him to enter their parked Toyota Sienna.
Agu said he questioned them to know what he had done wrong, but they would not entertain any questions from him. He said the clothes he wore depicted the rising sun as espoused by the late Odumegwu Ojukwu and was not a promotion of the Indigenous People of Biafra or the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
He said the soldiers dragged him and took him to their barracks where he met with senior officers who were more civil.
He said they searched his phone and found nothing incriminating there, adding that he was with them till the following day when they handed him over to the DSS who flew him to Abuja.
He said they were also civil and interrogated him extensively before they finally released him.
