The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has on Wednesday, stated that the people of the South-East region do not want an independent State of Biafra,
Governor Umahi said this on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’, adding that, what they want is to be treated equally like other regions of the country.
He said: “Every elite in the South-East is not desirous of Biafra. We do not want Biafra. We only want to be treated equally like other regions in Nigeria.
“So, this idea of Biafra, Biafra is madness.
“You can never get a nation out of a nation by the kind of hate speeches being dished out, and then from hate speeches to threats of killings and actual killings, and formation of militant groups.
“If you are fighting to protect us, so why are you killing us? We are the ones killing ourselves. Occasionally, people are imported from outside to do these killings, but majorly, like in my State, all the people that we have caught, all came from the South-East.
“Whatever is your problem, is it unemployment, you have nothing doing? We are going to leave every other thing to make sure you are empowered. The only thing is that when you are in the bush, we do not have access to you. You have to come out of the bush and work with us to empower you.
“But when you say no, that you will go in the name of agitations to cause criminality, we will isolate you as a criminal, and this is where we are, and we are very serious about it.”
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