Two Things Tinubu Must Do To ‘Impress’ Igbos – HURIWA

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has suggested two things that President Bola Tinubu should do to stabilise the security of the South East and impress the Igbo extraction of the country.

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said in a statement that the industralization of the SouthEast region is one of the projects that will impress Igbos in Tinubu’s government.

He said that on-going initiatives by Tinubu to light up the South East as recently announced by Vice President Kashim Shettima would be revolutionary, if political intrigues are not permitted to derail the projects.

The Vice President was said to have made the remarks at the launch of South East Business Roundtable “Light up Nigeria Program”, conducted by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, NDPHC, in Enugu.

“For the first time since 2015, the Igbos are now being made by the national government to acknowledge that the aspiration to industrialize and build up the economy of the South East are meticulously implemented jointly between the Federal government and Igbo States. If the South East is successfully lighted up, then the efforts to unite Nigeria would be achieved since the industrialization of the South East would create the massive impression to Igbos of Nigeria that the national government has their interest at heart,” he added.

Secondly, Onwubiko suggested that the termination of the Federal Government’s prosecution of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is key to the stability of the SouthEast region.

“HURIWA has therefore advocated an immediate end to the prosecution of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and hundreds of thousands of the members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra because according to the Rights group, opting for political solution to the issues that led to the prolonged incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will diffuse tensions and eradicate the insecurity that has built up since the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari unwisely began military clampdown on the members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra,” he stated.

HURIWA further congratulated Abia State Governor Mr. Alex Otti and Professor Batholomew Nnaji for the inauguration of the privately established Geometric Power Plant in Aba, Abia State.