Some
traditional rulers in Anambra State have urged Igbos to take advantage of the
quit notice issued to Igbos resident in the northern Nigeria by Arewa Youths to
begin
to invest in their home states.
According to
Igwe Chijioke Nwankwo, the traditional ruler of Nawfia in Njikoka Local
Government Area, Igbos living outside the southeast should consider their home
land as top
priority for
investment. Nwank- wo, made the call while react- ing to the recent quit notice
issued by the Arewa youths to the Igbos living in the north.
He
maintained that traditional rulers in the state decided to make the call urging
Igbos to come home and invest, their investments are better secured in their homeland
than elsewhere.
“It is the
culture and the tradition of the Igbos to always go home at least three, four
times
in a year.
In order to do this, you must have a comfortable home. It must not be a mansion
and we the traditional rulers have been making this call even be- fore this
threat. They should start investing at home because the only place you can run
to is your own home town,” he said.He argued that the Arewa youths quit notice
should serve as a wake-up call to the rest of Nigeria to organise a round-table
conference rather than the national conference held in 2014.The traditional
rulers of Nri, Omasi and Umuawulu communities, Eze Obidiegwu Onyesoh, Igwe
Benjamin Okeji and Igwe Joel Egwuonwu, advised sons and daughters of South-
east to repatriate their economic ventures to the zone as well as join hands
with their state governments to transform the region. They also stressed the
need for federal government to organise a national conference to define the
fate of the nation and its ethnic nationalities.
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