Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation has said that South-East traders and businessmen will suffer huge financial losses if they heed the call by MASSOB to sit at home on Saturday.
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) had declared Saturday as a peaceful sit-at-home protest day.
It said the action meant to draw attention to the alleged marginalisation of Ndi-Igbo in Nigeria.
Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, a Chieftain of Ohaneze in Anambra, in Onitsha on Friday said that there were better options for Ndi-Igbo to protest their marginalisation than embarking on sit-at-home protests.
“MASSOB sit-at-home order is unjustifiable because if Ndi-Igbo are allowed to obey the sit-at-home order, they would lose more than N1 billion for sitting at home on a whole day since they are predominantly buyers and sellers of goods.
“We have to apply wisdom in our protests and wait patiently until we see the 2nd Niger Bridge, federal roads, Federal Government industries, adequate security system, uninterrupted power supply and youth employment in Igbo land,’’ Ezeonwuka said.
He advised Igbo elite to bring their industries home to enable youths to have job opportunities.
Ezeonwuka said “investing outside Igboland would definitely deny the youths the opportunity to get employment.
“I advise both MASSOB and Igbo youths to make Igboland crime-free so that our deserted brothers can have a sense of security in returning home.” (NAN)
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