By Daniel Maduka
Ndigbo in the Diaspora under the aegis of Igbo General Assembly, IGA, have called on President Bola Tinubu to arrest the high level of insecurity and human carnage ravaging most parts of the South-east Region.
The Malaga Spain based IGA in a statement issued and signed by its President- General, Ozo Kingsley Ndibe, and Secretary, Hon E. C. Onugha, on Saturday February, 17, 2024 ,and made available to a section of the Media expressed the optimism and confidence in the abilities of the President to find an enduring panacea to the security challenges being faced by the people of the South-east Region. They urged the President to use the instrumentalities of his office as well as his status as the father of Nigeria to halt the orgy of violence and mindless human and material destruction in most States of the region.
The IGA which statement was issued at the end of its Conference in Spain regretted that since the commencement of the avoidable security problems, Diaspora investments which have been one the bedrocks of the region’s economy has considerably dwindled, as people can no longer come home to invest.
The disproportionate short fall in diaspora investments, according to the Umbrella body of Ndigbo in the Diaspora, has resulted in an increase in youth unemployment, with same youths now a willing tool in the hands of merchants of violence, kidnappings, and other criminal enterprises.
They noted that this ugly development has been a major source of concern to all Ndigbo both at home and abroad, and lamented the lack of political will on the part of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to halt the slide.
The IGA advised that one of the practical steps that should be considered in the efforts to restore normalcy and end the continued economic strangulation of the region is to find a lasting solution to the lingering incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kalu.
“There have been incessant cases of kidnappings, killings and regular bloodetting in the South-east, where our mothers can no longer go to the farm and fathers cannot also go out to conduct their businesses.
“Movements have been restricted in the region every Monday of the week.. All these have been impacting negatively on the educational future of the children and economic growth of the region.
“As stakeholders in the Igbo General Assembly. we are calling for the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kalu.
“We have faith in your administration’s abilities to build on equal rights ,justice ,and fairness for all irrespective of tribal ,political and or religious affiliations ” IGAÂ stated.
