Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin Kalu, has disclosed that the South East location misplaced over N4 trillion due to a lack of confidence within the remaining years. Mr. Kalu stated this in his address at the annual All Markets Convention in Lagos.
His words: “This growing improvement has induced us loads as we maintain dropping commercial enterprise funding to the steady sit-at-home. Insecurity stays a first-rate hassle within the east; the Yoruba aren’t our problem; we’re our very own problem within the east.
“The steady killing and kidnapping, among others, taking place within the south-east aren’t assisting us. We want to readjust and set up our home. This isn’t our identity.
Igbo aren’t recognized for violence. We should speak up with one voice and denounce this unpleasant state of affairs in our land. I’m pained that we’re not secure in the land that our forefathers gave us. We now sojourn in diaspora, giving our kids out in marriage in overseas land.”
On his part, the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof. Okonkwo Obiora, stated: “The help Igbo investors gave the governor within the March 2023 governorship election changed into now no longer due to the fact he’s Yoruba. It changed into a substitute due to the tremendous competence he demonstrated in piloting the affairs of the kingdom at some point in his first term. The investors additionally noticed in him a detribalized chief who eschewed discriminatory and divisive politics, which Lagos, a melting pot of ethnicities, calls for to excel.
Source; The Vanguard Newspaper .
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