By Ultimatenews
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that the People of Ebonyi will not sit at home order by the proscribed Indigenous People's of Biafra, IPOB during Oct 1st Nigeria’s 61st Independence-anniversary celebrations
Umahi who made the declaration while briefing newsmen at the end of an Enlarged Security Council Meeting at the New Government House, Abakaliki said the Oct. 1 date was very important to Nigeria and equally very important to Ebonyi, which was created on Oct. 1, 1996.
The governor said Ebonyi had been so much deprived in the past and was trying to catch up with the rest of the country with innovations.
“Ebonyi people have been so much deprived in the past, turned to house boys and house girls because of this sit-at-home and we are in a hurry to catch up with others. So, we are not going to be sitting down at home. And so, anybody that says sit-at-home, Ebonyi people will not sit-at-home.
“I am calling on the entire south-east to understand this sit-at-home and those who are orchestrating this sit-at-home are our brothers outside this country who are paid per hour and so, they find it very difficult to feel very comfortable for them to be at work and ask us to sit-at-home.
“They are working to be paid to have means of livelihood the same way they are working to be paid to have means of livelihood. If they truly mean it and they want to ask us to sit-at-home, all the southeast people outside this country should be sincere. Any day they want us to sit-at-home, let them also sit-at-home and see whether they will not be repatriated because they will have nothing to pay for their livelihood. So, it is all about deceit.
“Those who are being killed here in confrontation with security agencies, they are our children, they are our sons and daughters belonging to some of us who are at home. So, I want us to disregard this sit-at-home. Nobody all over the world is against peaceful agitations including agitations at home.
“We have agitations every day; husbands versus wives, children versus father, even house boys/house girls versus the mother of the house. So, there is always an agitation. So, agitation is natural, it’s fundamental but there is nobody who carries a gun and wants to kill another person in the name of anything that is justifiable.
Umahi who condenmed the rising cases of insecurity in the South East zone expecially the gruesome murder of Dr Chike Akunyili in Anambra recently described the act as uncultural in Igbo land.
He alleged that those orchestrating the insecurity were people of the region appealed that such ugly development should stop without any form of delay.
“We condemn in totality the insecurity in south-east orchestrated by our own people that is tagged unknown gunmen and I appeal on behalf of the governors that this should come to a stop. We are very mobile people, restricting our people is to destroy us and I am sure that every man and woman in south-east knows that.
“We strongly condemn the ugly killing of Dr Chike, a notable medical Doctor and we don’t know the reason for that killing and other killings not less than 12 within the past weeks. It is so terrible and so bad, fear has been inflicted on our people and this is very un-cultural. We appeal to these youths to lay down their arms.
“I don’t know why there should be insecurity, I don’t know why there should be killings, I don’t know why they should inflict fears in the minds of our people. This is very uncalled for and I am warning that the south-east people, their youths may one day rise up against these very few people doing this thing. It is a total war against our people and we are calling that it should stop. He said.
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that the People of Ebonyi will not sit at home order by the proscribed Indigenous People's of Biafra, IPOB during Oct 1st Nigeria’s 61st Independence-anniversary celebrations
Umahi who made the declaration while briefing newsmen at the end of an Enlarged Security Council Meeting at the New Government House, Abakaliki said the Oct. 1 date was very important to Nigeria and equally very important to Ebonyi, which was created on Oct. 1, 1996.
The governor said Ebonyi had been so much deprived in the past and was trying to catch up with the rest of the country with innovations.
“Ebonyi people have been so much deprived in the past, turned to house boys and house girls because of this sit-at-home and we are in a hurry to catch up with others. So, we are not going to be sitting down at home. And so, anybody that says sit-at-home, Ebonyi people will not sit-at-home.
“I am calling on the entire south-east to understand this sit-at-home and those who are orchestrating this sit-at-home are our brothers outside this country who are paid per hour and so, they find it very difficult to feel very comfortable for them to be at work and ask us to sit-at-home.
“They are working to be paid to have means of livelihood the same way they are working to be paid to have means of livelihood. If they truly mean it and they want to ask us to sit-at-home, all the southeast people outside this country should be sincere. Any day they want us to sit-at-home, let them also sit-at-home and see whether they will not be repatriated because they will have nothing to pay for their livelihood. So, it is all about deceit.
“Those who are being killed here in confrontation with security agencies, they are our children, they are our sons and daughters belonging to some of us who are at home. So, I want us to disregard this sit-at-home. Nobody all over the world is against peaceful agitations including agitations at home.
“We have agitations every day; husbands versus wives, children versus father, even house boys/house girls versus the mother of the house. So, there is always an agitation. So, agitation is natural, it’s fundamental but there is nobody who carries a gun and wants to kill another person in the name of anything that is justifiable.
Umahi who condenmed the rising cases of insecurity in the South East zone expecially the gruesome murder of Dr Chike Akunyili in Anambra recently described the act as uncultural in Igbo land.
He alleged that those orchestrating the insecurity were people of the region appealed that such ugly development should stop without any form of delay.
“We condemn in totality the insecurity in south-east orchestrated by our own people that is tagged unknown gunmen and I appeal on behalf of the governors that this should come to a stop. We are very mobile people, restricting our people is to destroy us and I am sure that every man and woman in south-east knows that.
“We strongly condemn the ugly killing of Dr Chike, a notable medical Doctor and we don’t know the reason for that killing and other killings not less than 12 within the past weeks. It is so terrible and so bad, fear has been inflicted on our people and this is very un-cultural. We appeal to these youths to lay down their arms.
“I don’t know why there should be insecurity, I don’t know why there should be killings, I don’t know why they should inflict fears in the minds of our people. This is very uncalled for and I am warning that the south-east people, their youths may one day rise up against these very few people doing this thing. It is a total war against our people and we are calling that it should stop. He said.
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