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By Akpan David, Calabar
Archbishop Nnana Immanuel Mong, the international Public Relations Officer of Association of Brotherhood Academic Scholars, (ABAS), has declared that there is no amount of violence, killings or agitations by assorted pro-Biafra militant groups that will make Ndigbo actualize their collective goals.
Mong, an Igbo youth leader, called on the many Pro-Biafra agitators to close camps and work towards co-existing with other Nigerians as the country cannot be divided.
In a statement issued in Calabar, the clergyman also posited that the weekly sit-at-home ordered by some militant groups in the southeast part of the country has made the Ibos retrogressed by, at least, 30 years.
He asserted that the violent actions by the Pro-Biafra groups have rather inflicted themselves and Igbos generally with laziness and complexity thereby impacting significantly against the internally generated revenues and socioeconomic development of the region of the entire southeast.
“My sincere advice to the Youths of Igbo extraction is that they should eschew violence.
“There is no amount of violence, killings or agitations that will make Ndigbo actualize their collective goals except first to align with the perfect will of God.
“This perfect will is to co-exist as one indivisible Nigeria, seek the Face of God for divine direction, embrace dialogue and create time to be part of the Nigerian politics.
“It is very sad that the youths have chosen the course of violence and self-indulgence and abandoned the very essence of life which is God.
“The sit at home syndrome which has eaten deep in Igbo land has drawn the Igbo nation 30 years backwards.”
He expressed optimism that
the igbos, if they eschew violence and love themselves, they can reclaim their pride of place in the Nigerian polity.
