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Abbas Tajudeen, Speaker of the Home of Representatives
The Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has urged Igbo leaders to hunt methods of interfacing with the Federal Authorities to deal with their legit grievances.
The lawmaker, in his tackle on the launch of the Peace within the South East Challenge, a mind baby of the Deputy Speaker. Benjamin Kalu, lamented that regardless of South-East’s financial strengths, agitations within the zone had triggered it many losses.
Talking on Friday on the occasion held in Bende, Abia State, Abbas acknowledged that the peace within the South-East was invariably, the peace and progress of the whole Nigeria.
In a press release issued by his Particular Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Musa Krishi, on Friday, Abbas famous that the PISE-P was borne out of his deputy’s deep love for the zone and profound concern over the rise of insecurity, “which has forged a darkish shadow over the area.”
He lamented that the wave of insecurity “continues to cripple each day life and considerably paralyse socio-economic endeavours, in a area whose persons are famend for his or her resourcefulness and financial enterprise.”
Describing the challenge as “historic and patriotic endeavour” the assertion quoted Abbas as saying, “Between 1956 and 1965, the then Jap area was thought to be the fastest-growing economic system in Africa and Asia. Certainly, the South-East has remained an financial powerhouse in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, main in commerce and commerce.
“From Aba to Adamawa and Enugu to Europe, Igbo are identified to be entrepreneurial, resourceful, peace-loving, savvy, tenacious and peace-loving. That’s the character of the Igbo. That’s who you might be. Three of your cities, Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi, are among the many most industrialised in Nigeria.
“A sizeable chunk of the most important investments in lots of components of Nigeria are Igbo-owned. Your contributions to the Nigerian economic system, both via imports, enterprise investments, or Diaspora remittances, amongst others, are indeniable.
“The contributions of the Igbo are obvious not solely with regard to the economic system but additionally in all fields of human endeavour, together with literature, academia, the inventive trade and plenty of extra.”
Regardless of its pure endowment, the Speaker added that the challenges dealing with the South-East have typically manifested within the type of separatist agitations, unrest, and terrorism, noting that “The results on each lives and property have been colossal.”
To deal with these points successfully, the Speaker stated the stakeholders should first perceive their root causes.
