Former Abia State governor, Dr
Orji Uzor Kalu, has revealed what will end the needless agitations in the south
eastern part of the country.
According to Kalu, creation of an
additional state in the South-east zone, would put it at par with the other
zones in the country.
Kalu made this submission when he
spoke with newsmen during annual youth summit of Junior Chamber International,
Ikoyi, hosted by the Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation at Camp Neya, his country home
in Igbere, Bende LGA.
He said the decision of the
government to proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remained the
only option that would guarantee stability which he said the country needs
desperately at a time like this .
“I think a lot of hate speech had
engulfed the country, and the matter escalated because the IPOB leader refused
to abide by the terms of his bail. If he had agreed, and probably appealed
against the conditions, the situation wouldn’t have gotten to this point. When
two people are fighting and the court says, don’t fight, you obey the court.
The court decision was not a personal decision of Justice Binta Nyako but the
decision of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Kalu explained.
“Some of you know what Ojukwu
said here when he was alive, one day it will be made public. If we say we are
marginalised, everyone is marginalised. We are marginalised because our people
refuse to work. As soon as one becomes a governor or minister he buys houses in
Ikoyi and abroad and the people will celebrate him.
“Remember when I was governor,
the army and police used to do joint patrol. We should not box ourselves into a
corner because my conscience will not allow me to do what is evil,” he said.
“The demography of this country
shows that if you go to Kontagora, after the aborigines the next is the Igbo.
The same with Jos, Kano, the West, name it, so we need the peace and unity of
the country more than anyone else,” he said.
The former governor and chieftain
of APC, however, appealed to the Federal Government to take the issue of
restructuring seriously, saying, “We have gone past going to Abuja to share
money every month.”
He pleaded with the federal
government to go back to the 2014 confab report, “The South East zone should
have one more state,” Kalu said, lamenting that rather than discuss the
interest of the zone, “some Igbo leaders go to the president with the CV of
their wives and children, but I go to him to tell him the problem of the
people.”
“We need peace everywhere, we
condemn hate speeches,” Kalu said.
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