Why Igbos should relocate their investments to South-East
By Nwauwa Ikedi Justice
Igbo people are the only set of tribe or you call them ethnic group in Nigeria who truly believe in one and indivisible country.
Igbo people love the unity of Nigeria with every dint of passion , that’s why the tribe can invest in any part of the country without having any second thought of not belonging to the area.
The great Igbo people have contributed more than 85% of the structural and economic development of every single capital, city or town beginning From Edo State to Adamawa State as well as Sokoto to Cross River States.
Yes Igboman vigorously contributed to its development much more than the people who calls for themselves the indigenes. There’s no doubt about this.
But of all these, Igbo people have been held, seen or treated with the highest disdainful approach.
It’s a doubtless fact to state here, that, it’s only Igboman can without thinking twice erect a multi million magnificent building structure outside his geopolitical zone over and over. No tribe in Nigeria has ever done this before. It’s not a joke and can never seems to be joke.
However, it’s disheartening to note that of all these immense contributions, the indigenes would never see the igbos to be one of them.
They will mindlessly go and on to treat the resourceful igbos with scornful despicabilites.
Oftentimes, if there is any intertribal alterations, that may probably not concerns an Igboman, the aggression and hostilities which will emanate from the altercation would be the biggest sufferers.
Igbo people have lost uncountable number of human lives as well as billions of dollars investment within Nigerian.
This due to some avoidably and unprovoked aggression by their host tribes.
That notwithstanding, Ndigbo have requited them by providing for them some critical infrastructural amenities which their Government may not be able to provide for them.
Igboman pays the highest taxes in this Nigeria Federation, no doubt about that.
In view of the above, Nigeria Government has never deemed it necessary in any of their policy and or legislation granted any incentives either inform of tax waiver or grant in aid to support the Igbo taxes paying businesses.
Nonetheless, it’s obvious that Federal Government has in diverse ways, supported the business of livestock and crops production in the Northern Nigeria which has implicitly or explicitly makes no iota of contribution to the country’s revenue .
Whether right or wrong, the Lagos State House of Assembly has came up with one ludicrous but wickedly minded bill targeted at stripping off Igbo people of their properties in Lagos, just because, their preferred candidate didn’t earn the support of Igbos during the election.
What a wickedness or man’s inhumanity to his fellow man.
However, if only Ndigbo will have a bit of rethink of themselves and begin now to relocate their investment anywhere within the region of south east geopolitical zone, that will be far more productive, secured and beneficial to us.
If this is done, not only that it will astronomically develop the region, it will no longer put their business in gross jeopardy but restore the dignity of Igbo race in comity of the Nigerian Federation.
