Residents of Southeast region will not participate in the economic sabotage by some sacrosanct s in other region to protest against the high cost of living in Nigeria, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has relatively resolved insecurity ravaging the zone.
The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi revealed this over the weekend at his Uburu residence in Ohaozara LGA of Ebonyi State.
Umahi noted that incessant clash between farmers and herders have been the major challenges in the region aside the self-inflicting “unknown but known gunmen” in the Southeast.
The former Governor said, “If you check very well, especially in the Southeast, you will know that we no longer have incessant farmers/herders clashes.”
“So, why should we join the protest when the President has solved our major problem?”
“The problem we now have in the Southeast is self-inflicted. That is the issue of unknown but known gunmen.”
“So, if we are protesting, who are we protesting against? We are protesting against a President that has solved herders/farmers clashes.”
“If you remove the issue of unknown gunmen, the Southeast will be completely safe and farmers can work. So, we can’t go and join anybody to protest.”