Igbo Investment In Northern Nigeria Worth N44trn – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has valued investments by the Igbo ethnic group in Northern Nigeria at N44 trillion.

This was according to Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, National President of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, who said this during a round table discussion in Abuja with former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Ham­za Al-Mustapha (rtd).

“As the leader­ship of youths, we are the bridge between those seeking for a refer­endum and the ones seeking for restructuring. Igbo have contrib­uted a lot to this country, and our investment in the 19 Northern states is worth over N44 trillion,” said Isiguzoro.

Al-Mustapha had hosted the group as he begins moves to hold a national youth and unity summit with Igbo youths.

Al-Mustapha said that “when the need to chart a course as a family comes, to redefine its coexistence, that truth and only truth is needed, a portion of it may be accepted, others may be bitter.

“If a country has once witnessed war, experienced in­surgency, has seen and tasted all forms of sabotage, it is on the shoulders of the younger ones to sit down and think that there is one simple platform that can stitch these wounds and it is called unity.

“On our own and out of shared concern, our fathers in the South East, elders of thought, opinion leaders, youth associations and some of us have taken it upon ourselves to discuss the issues that tear us apart,” he said.

Al-Mustapha, who noted that the initiative is in the spirit of Nigeria’s first Presi­dent, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, went on to say “When today’s leaders are busy talking over issues that in the spirit of Zikism are considered minor then something is really wrong with us and there is a need for us to sit down and think. If you must sit on the round table at the end of the day, then why go to fight?”