Njiko Igbo Forum decries FG’s alleged unjust distribution of palliatives in South-East
President of Njiko Igbo Forum an affiliate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Rev Okechukwu Christopher Obioha, has decried Federal Government’s alleged unjust distribution of palliatives.
Obioha who doubles as Convener/Chairman South-East Equity Group-SEEP, made this disclosure in a press statement titled “Insensitive and discriminatory policy of Federal Government, A gross abuse on the syche of the South-East (Igbo)”.
The statement partly read, “There is no equity, justice and in fairness, the amount of the so-called palliative from the Federal Government extended to the people of the SouthEast zone, that can assuage, support or compensate them enough, as long as the Eastern Corridors of the Railways remained recklessly abandoned.”
He noted that the unequal distribution of opportunities didn’t start now, adding that it had affected infrastructural development in the zone.
“From the days of Sure-P of the Obasanjo administration to the Buhari-led government, all other Rail lines and even new ones, particularly that of the Katsina to Niger(another country) were constructed and operational, except that of the Eastern Corridors running from Port Harcourt to Enugu to Markurdi to Maiduguri.
“The remarkable worse situation, is the Federal Government organised and orchestrated crime of pulling off the rails/slippers all through this corridors, leaving no sign of any trace of a former rail line, except grasses and tress that have grown thereby,” Obioha added.
The group questioned the visible neglect of the region, stressing that the Federal Government is still at war with people.
He said, “How else can this be explained, than that the Federal Government, by this obnoxious brazen dichotomy policy and implementation, is still at war with the Igbo of the South-East.
“The war is still on and as far as the average Igbo is concerned, the struggle to survive still continues unabated.There is nothing like palliative to the Vanquished Nigeria Igbo, but to the Nigeria Victor. One United Nigeria indeed!”
