Insecurity: Ohanaeze Ndigbo to hold peace summit to discuss way forward
The Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said that it is planning to organize a peace summit to discuss ways of addressing insecurity in the country and the South East especially.
The council said this in a communiqué issued by its Chairman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, at the end of its meeting in Abuja yesterday.
At a different forum in Nsukka also yesterday, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Frank Nweke Jr, urged Biafra agitators to reconsider the effect of their Monday sit-at-home order on the Southeast.
“The council took a decision on the need to have a peace summit. It goes with the desire that Nnamdi Kanu should be released. We want to dialogue with his participation in order to have an enduring peace in Nigeria, particularly in the South East.
“The council therefore called on the Federal Government and all persons concerned to release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally. He cannot be in the prison while such crucial summit is being held,” Iwuanyanwu said.
He added that the security situation in the country called for concern, saying that the council was particularly worried about how the situation had worsened in the South East.
Iwuanyanwu noted that lives were being lost, innocent blood was being shed while properties and government institutions were being destroyed.
“Moreover both state and federal governments are deploying huge financial resources in fighting a meaningless war instead of providing infrastructure, education and healthcare.”
