AN Igbo socio-cultural group, the Igbo Speaking Community in Lagos,
yesterday, accused successive administrations in Nigeria of a
deliberate neglect and marginalization of the South-East
geopolitical zone.
The group at a World Press Conference in Enugu equally lamented that
even though Ndigbo had suffered unquantifiable loss as a result of the
Boko Haram insurgency, they have not been factored in the agenda for
the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs.
President-General of the association, Chief Ebere Ubani who spoke
alongside the Chairman, IDPs, South-East, Ozo Patrick Mba, also drew
the attention of the world to what he called "latest unimaginable and
deliberate marginalization of Ndigbo on the IDPs saga".
The President alleged that the Igbo nation was still under siege by an
unforgiveable authorities in Nigeria, which he said had culminated in
the total abandonment of the South-East in all infrastructural and
developmental facets in order to keep the zone in perpetual
under-development and political slavery.
Ubani, however, lamented that whereas other IDPs were being catered
for, the returnees had been left to roam helplessly in all the nooks
and crannies of the South-East, where according to him "the political
nomenclature on ground for whatever reasons has failed to take
cognizance of these human tragedy."
The group, while calling for an urgent need to open IDPs camp in the
South-East, further stated that it had started collection of names and
addresses of the returnees.
"It becomes imperative to appeal to the Federal Government, the
South-East governors and political leaders to live up to their vows
and provide succour to these millions of displacedNdigboso that they
will not end up like the Biafran ex-service men and women, who today
liter major streets in the South-East".
—Vanguard
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