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BY SUNNY A. DAVID
Dialogue and mutual understanding have been identified as some of the veritable instruments to proffer a lasting peace and solution in the Communities of Ihiala Local Government Area and other parts of Anambra State bedeviled by the problems of insecurity over the years.
The Member, representing Ihiala Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representives, Abuja, Rt. Honourable Pascal Agbodike, who was speaking recently in Awka during the reception organized in his honour, maintained that the Ihiala Local Government Area has a lot of great youths with great potential yet untapped.
He said that if the youths with such great potentials were allowed without gainful employed that there may be every possiblity that some of them would began to use their knowledge in a negative manner that would be inimical to the society.
That may not be far from what our people are witnessing in Ihiala Local Government Area today, he said.
He said that that was why upon his emergence through the majority votes from the good people of the Federal Constituency, that he personally promised to make a case towards presenting the insecurity problem rocking the Local Government to Federal Government as the Federal Lawmaker representing them.
The two times Lawmaker in the Anambra State House of Assembly, assured the people that he has volunteered himself to mediate in the insecurity problem in the Communities of the Impala Local Government with a view to bring a last solution to the security problem in the area.
He added that being one of the stakeholders in Anambra State and a former Deputy Speaker in the seventh Anambra State House of Assembly with eight years experience as a parlimentrian that he believed in what he can do, pointing out that he cannot fold his arms and watch his people to go to an exile.
The Lawmaker, who noted that most of the Communities in Ihiala Local Government today have been deserted and now look like ghost Communities, decried that there was no consideration yet from the Federal Government to compensate the suffering people of Ihiala as most of them have been rendered homeless.
He noted that INEC was during the last elections in the State deployed electoral materials in those Communities question, but regretted that nobody out of fear come out to exercise their franchise, stressing that they cannot allow such ugly trend to continue in the area.
The Federal Government lawmaker, emphasized that one of the major challenges that is facing the Nigerian youths today was unemployment, calling on the Federal Government to intervene in the insecurity problem currently bedevilling the Ihiala people by paying a special attention in the area, affirming that no meaningful peace and security can be achieved through a gun barrel and deploying of army and other security troops in the area.
He identified dialogue as the only answer to the insecurity challenge in the Local Government, opining that the Ihiala case was not the first one in Nigeria the issue of insecurity has been reported, pointing out that it has happened in Niger Delta and Federal Government intervened immediately through dialogue and amnesty and profered a far reaching solution in the area.
He observed that in the Niger Delay today peace has been restored in the area, lamenting that what happened then in the Niger Delta that even twenty percent of them have not happened in Ihiala, saying that as of today, most of the people in Ihiala Communities could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed and appealed to the Federal Government to please stop sending army troops and ammunitions in the area, but should work towards granting amnesty to the people of the Local Government .
The Lawmaker, who spoke further, maintained that some leaders and stakeholders in the Local Government have already volunteered themselves to meddle in what that is happening in the area, noting that people in are having a special case in Nigeria today.
He stated that the Anambra State Government under the watch of Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo is doing its best, but this time around Federal Government should come up with palliative measures to cushion the negative effects of the insecurity on the people of Ihiala and as well create at least fifty thousand job opportunities for the youths in the area to be gainful employed.
