Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has called for an end to the propaganda orchestrated by the elites in the South-East zone against the Federal Government.
The former Anambra State Governor said the propaganda provoked the troubles being noticed in that part of the country.
Ngige spoke in Abuja at an Emergency Stakeholders meeting of the Association of Eze Ndigbo, 19 Northern States and Abuja.
“But much, more importantly, propaganda against the government by the elites in the South-East should stop because it is that propaganda that provoked troubles that we are now noticing. People have been brainwashed and the separatists humped on that foundation to now shout from the rooftops that we will give you Biafra and when we give you Biafra, all these things will disappear.
“There is no country that does not have its own problems. We have economic problems here and that is why we have unemployment and of course, we have a youth bulge in our population. About 60 per cent of them are youths and a lot of them are unemployed. So, the government is devising ways to tackle that. It is a work in progress.”
Earlier, in their separate speeches, Eze Ndigbo, Niger State and President of Ndieze Igbo 19 Northern states and FCT Abuja, Eze (Dr) Pampas Nwahiwe and Eze Ndigbo Kano, Boniface Ibekwe, condemned the violence by suspected agitators in the South East who were attacking police and military formations and killing our security personnel, warning that their actions were capable of endangering the lives of their brothers who are living in other parts of Nigeria.
