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| South East wants development and not Boko Haram terrorists: Umeh, Ezeemo react to Anambra protest over Boko HaramAdd caption |
According to Odogwu blog, Chief Umeh spoke at Neros Stadium Nanka during the grand finale of Awka diocesan priests sports competition 2015 and recognition of Excellence /Award to Distinguished Personalities in sports including Sir Victor Umeh who was Grand Patron.
Umeh said it is most uncharitable for the Comptroller of Prisons or the Federal Government to send to Anambra prisons Boko Haram extremists caught in Borno State rather than expand the prisons there.
The stakeholder in Anambra has condemned the directives given by the President Mohammadu Buhari to relocate some of the Boko Haram extremist down to Onitsha and Ekwuluobia prison in Anambra State, describing it as a ploy to destabilize the peace experienced in the South East and Anambra in particular.
He insisted the federal government or comptroller of prisons should not attempt bringing them down to any state in the south east as the people are in support of the traders protest against that dastardly act. Umeh condemned the presidential directive, adding that it is not the kind of development Ndigbo is hoping to get from his government but fixing of our roads and other basic infrastructure.
On his part, Mr Godwin Ezeemo , a publisher of Orient Dailies frowned at the president’s directives and said that such action was capable of causing chaos.
Ezeemo said that such directives was not in tandem with social reformation and peaceful as such mix up would pollute the mind set of those in prison who have committed civil offense and are awaiting trial either for sentences or release.
He said that the government should have made improvise prison where only people with such like minds would be kept and placed under reformation to get they back to normal living.
According to him, mixing the extremists with the ordinary prisoners tends more danger than they were trying to prevent,” In American such case was handled by placing the identified terrorist in a special cell and decision was taken on them.
Ezeemo called on the federal government to have a rethink on the decision and see that such decision would breed bad blood in the minds of the Igbo’s and should avoid such actions that could lead to unrest in the country.
He suggested that the federal government should build prisons to handle such cases and if it must relocate the Boko Haram prisoners that nearby prisons was more suitable than coming down to the eastern part of the country where relative peace was being enjoyed.
He said that “This action or directives of the presidents leaves fears in minds of the people of the sincerity of the government wanting to have a unified and peaceful country."
Mr Chris Okigbo a retired solider during civil war described the Boko Haram issue as an imaginative name that would be crushed if the attempt Igbo race after all the have done to the easterners without reprisal attack they have guts to toy with Igbos.
He said that this is right time for all blooded Igbos to rise with one voice to fight Hausa in any form the come either Boko Haram or not
Protest rocked major cities of Anambra State today following the report that hardened Boko Haram terrorists are to be relocated from prisons in Northern Nigeria to the state.
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