Address Insecurity in the South-East – Chief Uzozie Task FG, Tinubu
The National Leader of Igbo bu Igbo General forum in Nigeria, Chief Henry Uzozie, has called on the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu GCFR, to urgently address the high rate of insecurity bedevilling the South-Eastern part of the country. High Chief Uzozie made the call recently during a press briefing with newsmen at Abuja.
According to the National Leader, he said that Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu is a President that listens to his people and urged him to look into the insecurity situation in the South-East to enable peace and development return to the region. He maintained that it is only when the region is peaceful that the masses can go to their businesses, the women can go to their farmlands freely to farm while other economic activities would come alive again.
High Chief Uzozie charged the Governos of the South-East to come together and help the Federal Government to fashion out the best way to address the insecurity situation, adding that they are the ones at the helm of affairs in the South-East. “I will tell all the Governors in the South-East to come together and unite to find a resolution to this ugly situation affecting the region. They should try to listen to their people and know what the people want and dialogue with them to maintain peace in the region according to law”, he said.
Chief Uzozie also decried the ugly policy of Sit-at-home every Monday in the South-East being orchestrated by hoodlums who disguise themselves in various names to perpetrate crime and criminalities in the region.
According to him, “this Sit-at-home is affecting the elderly who cannot go to their farms freely, the traders cannot go about their businesses where they make their living daily to take care of themselves and their loved ones. This is not normal anymore because the economy of the South-East is dying and collapsing very fast.
He is therefore, appealing to the President in conjunction with the Governors of the South-East states to take necessary actions to address this menace quickly so that the people can move freely, associate freely and carry out their businesses without fear of being attacked.
On the issue of the Supreme Court judgement affirming President Bola Tinubu as the duly elected President of the February 25 Presidential election, Chief Uzozie posited that ‘I strongly believe and as a law-abiding citizen of Nigeria that I stand with the Supreme Court Judgement since it remains the final Court in the land. I also say that all Nigerians should embrace the judgement in good fate and move on. And moving on is that we all should support the ruling government and bring out ideas that would improve on the quality and standard of lives of the masses. He further enjoined the two major opposition parties (LP and PDP) to sheath their swords and support the ruling party to move the country to the next level, adding that both parties have proved that election can be turned around for the masses to participate in the election processes. “We should follow the due process of the law according to the Supreme Court’, Chief Uzozie said.
The National Leader of Igbo bu Igbo General Forum appealed to the Federal Government to temper justice with mercy and release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in line with the law so that peace would return to the South-East as well.
