National SecurityNewsNigeriaDiscuss With IPOB, Abia Governor Urges FG

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The governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has advised that the federal government discuss with the IPOB, a pro-Biafra group.

According to him, an open conversation with the IPOB as well as other similar groups across the country is a way of tackling the rising insecurity in Nigeria.

The governor said this on Sunday during an interview with the Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today.

Mr. Ikpeazu said the attacks were not far from terrorism and that there are meant to terrify the people and make them afraid and withdraw from their civic responsibility.

“In the first place what is the genesis of the agitation in the South-east? Some people in the Southeast feel unprotected the way things are going and they also feel that some criminal herders that have found their way into our forests were not adequately sanctioned according to the rule book of Nigeria, and that created a gap.

“It is this gap that non-state actors are trying to fill, wrongly though,” the governor said when asked by the interviewer, Seun Okinbaloye, what he was doing about the IPOB’s sit-at-home order.

“But you also notice that there is a perception problem here, a lot of people feel that something needs to happen about protecting farmlands, protecting the people in the forests, and if the security architecture, as presently constituted, has failed to do that, people will begin to seek help from all kinds of things.

“The good place to start is to listen to the crux of their agitation because some of the things they have mentioned is what is agitating the mind of the ordinary people in the Southeast. So, what is wrong with listening? What is wrong with discussing the issues?

“If they say they want somebody in the Security Council, why can’t that happen?” he said.

 

Beloved John (Staff Writer)

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