The apex Igbo socio-political
organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday highlighted reasons for the high-level
insecurity in Nigeria.
Ohanaeze claimed that the
presidency’s alleged weak handling of killer herdsmen was responsible for the
level of insecurity in the country.
Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chuks Ibegbu also blamed insecurity in the country on
the elites and government officials, who loot public funds.
In a statement he signed, Ibegbu
said: “We blame the issue of insecurity on elite insensitivity, looting of our
commonwealth by government officials which leave the people and youths
pauperized, inadequate training for security agents and nepotism in their
recruitment.
“Kids glove treatment of armed
killer herdsmen by government officials and the Presidency, parasitism by the
ruling elites who corner the commonwealth of the people to their bottomless
pockets, culture of impunity in high and low places,injustice and inequality
between the haves and have nots, and the excessive breeding of the population
which leads to population explosion especially of the youth strata.”
Ibegbu also stated that the
“population of idle youths in Nigeria is much caused by uncontrolled breeding
especially in the North.
“There are more than 20million
idle almajiris in the North, 7million area boys in the west and 10 million
militants and idle hands drawn into IPOB and MASSOB in the East and South-South
respectively.
“When you have this angry youth
population in the country you can imagine the consequences. The elites in the
North now travel from Kaduna to Abuja by rail to avoid being kidnapped along
the road. The elites in the East and South-South have no functional rail to
travel to so they must face the kidnappers along East-West road.
“The elites in the Southwest are
luckier, they can go by air or sea and some along the risky Lagos -Ibadan
expressway. So nowhere is safe any more in Nigeria, not even barracks, except
perhaps Aso Rock and state Government Houses,” he added.
On the way forward, Ibegbu called
on the “Nigeria elites and ruling class to repent and address the needs of the
youths and common masses else they will have no peace since they sowed the
wind, they will continue to reap the whirlwind.”
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