PNGG urges Igbos to invest in S/E to reduce insecurity, provide jobs for youths

A group in South East, Prayer Network for Good Governance (PNGG) has urged Ndigbo to think home economically and invest in the zone in order to reduce insecurity in the land and provide employment opportunities for the teaming youths.

The group stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital during the inauguration of its Ebonyi chapter. The inauguration was performed by the National Coordinator of the group, Apostle Chukwuma Igbo.

Igbo who lamented the disunity in the south east, said the group was formed to give voice to ndigbo as according to him, all the groups in the zone like Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other groups have not lived up to expectations.

“If you look at what is happening in Nigeria, there are issues we needed the voice from south east but we didn’t get one’ the issue of Igbo presidency, the rejection of women bill in National Assembly. We needed a voice to say one or few things while the bill should not be rejected.

“There are other national issues like insecurity. You see other regions saying something against it, the Arewa Youths Assembly, you see them always defending their people, always contributing to national development but here, the groups we have as our leaders are busy fighting themselves; the Governors forum, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, MASSOB, IPOB and other groups seem not to understand themselves. This is why we step in to galvanize voice. We are being marginalized but this marginalization cannot stop unless we speak with one voice politically and otherwise”, he said.

Ebonyi State Coordinator of the group, Comrade Greg Esheya while briefing journalists after the inauguration, urged Ndigbo to think home economically and invest in it.

He explained that investing if the Igbo invest home, it will reduce insecurity in the land and provide employment opportunities for the teaming youths.

“We all should think home economically. The Igbo are investors in other parts of the world but they have abandoned their homes. So, this body will call for a think home, a backward deliberation economically. An Igbo man should invest in his home. The market is there and when you invest in your home, you reduce insecurity in your homeland, employment opportunities will increase.

“The experience of the civil war should guide us here. Any uprising in the North or any part of Nigeria, the Igbo are always the target, their economic establishments are destroyed. So, invest in your home, reduce insecurity. If the youths have jobs and we have infrastructure, we may not care much who is the President of Nigeria but we care because the dividends are not there.

“Since after the civil war, the Igbo has continue to play second fiddle in the affairs of this nation. This time around, we are saying that for equity sake, for justice sake, Igbo should be giving the chance and it is not just give us chance. We know the nature of the Igbo man. Igbo can reinvent Nigeria, it is their nature to bring life where there is none.

“As a body, we are calling for President of Igbo extraction in 2023 for the sake of equity and for the sake of good governance. We have the materials, we have those who can fit in that role and play it very well. The next election will be a referendum in this country to be or not to be, it is a referendum, it is not an ordinary election. If we make any mistake, that will be the end of this country”, he stated.