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| Ohaneze Ndigbo |
THE Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a pan-Igbo organization has fine-tuned its
groundwork in view of presenting demands for and on behalf of the South-East
geographical zone to President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government in
pursuit of equity, justice and harmony in the nation.
The resolutions which
were adopted after a meeting of the organization in Enugu during the week
specifically adopted a motion seeking for the establishment of Eastern Nigeria
Development Commission, (ENDC) which will take responsibility of employment of
the youths from the zone stating that high level of unemployment among the youths
from the zone was grossly accountable for the agitation for cessation which the
Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) have been clamouring for.
Other critical issues resolved to present to the President at
the meeting include the rehabilitation of the Enugu-Umuahia-Port Harcourt Road,
the Enugu-Onitsha express Road which demands urgent interventions, as well as
the completion of the Second Niger Bridge.
On political appointments, the organization lamentably noted
that the present appointments of the federal government has not reflected true federal
character and equitable distribution of the power in the federal republic
adding that such incongruity inevitably contributed to the uproar by the youths
who had no option than to demand for cessation with the present scenario seemingly in favour of some ethnic tribes and vice versa.
Emphatically, it demands for more Special and Senior Special
Assistants of Igbo extraction stating that the South-East has eligible and best
brains that can make meaningful contribution to the service of the fatherland.
It would be recalled that the Imo State Governor, Owelle
Rochas Okorocha had during a reconciliatory meeting recently pledged to pilot
the zone towards redressing all the inadequacies, however on the condition that
the youths and agitators must give peace a change adding that no geographical zone
could make remarkable progress in a chaotic atmosphere.
In similar vein, former governor of Abia State, Dr Uzor Orji
Kalu also pledged to use his office as a senator if successfully elected to
champion the course of the agitators and the zone at large by ensuring that all
the irregularities which ostensibly marginalized the geographical zone unlike
its counterparts in the country are speedily addressed so as to strike a
visible balance.
Several other leaders had at different times called on the
federal government for redress of the anomalies in the system, however ruled
out the cessation move being orchestrated by MASSOB and IPOB.
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