Sit-At-Home, We Are Losing Businesses, Income on Daily Basis - Igbonine


By Aviashima Toom, Abuja

The Igbonine Socio-cultural Organisation, has called on stakeholders, Government of all tiers, Religious leaders and Traditional rulers to consult among themselves and determine how to end actions of self immolation in Igboland.
President General of the group, High Chief Emeka Okonkwo, made the call on Thursday while briefing journalists in Abuja, also called on it people who are giving overt or covert support to the misguided youths involved in the damage to the psyche, lives and welfare of the people living in the south East, to the negative impact of their actions on Ndigbo.

He said that, apart from lose of lives, the South East are losing businesses and income on a daily basis from the apparently unending Sit-At-Home order.

He said, they cannot continue on the voyage of self destruction, and cutting it nose to spite their face. "The state of  affairs in the South East is capable of completely destroying the enterprise of the Igboland and revising the gains of the Akuluono philosophy".
  
"We should no longer sit at home but move out and pursue our daily business. 

"Sitting at home, indolence and lazyness are not part of Igbo culture, we are serious minded and enterprising people who toil to create wealth for ourselves and society.

"We will go back to work to continue to develop the South East and Nigeria at large" he insist.

Igbonine however called on all state governments in the south East to show seriousness and take charged of the situation.
 

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