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A new Igbo group in Diaspora under the umbrella of Igbo World Assembly (IWA), has flayed the continuous neglect of Igbo extraction in the Nigerian polity, warning that Nigeria may not achieve much in socio-economic and political development unless Igbo people are involved.
A new Igbo group in Diaspora under the umbrella of Igbo World Assembly (IWA), has flayed the continuous neglect of Igbo extraction in the Nigerian polity, warning that Nigeria may not achieve much in socio-economic and political development unless Igbo people are involved.
The group in a statement declared that the new global Igbo Congress shall be a new modality for political, economic, and social engagement for and on behalf of Ndigbo worldwide, adding that the group shall have full power to speak with one voice for a better Igbo states.
The group while lamenting the experience of Igbo people in the Nigerian Civil War, noted that, "All Nigerian ethnicities contribute to the diversity and richness of Nigeria, and are entitled without discrimination to all human rights recognized in international law, and possess inalienable fundamental rights integral to our Nationalcompact."
According to IWA, in spite of their contributions to Nigeria, Ndigbo have suffered historic injustices as a result of, among other things, incessant acts of violence continuously meted against their people.
IWA, which is currently preaching a better Igbo in the statement, noted that since the end of the Nigerian civil war, successive governments in power have followed a policy of institutionalized political and economic discapacitation of Ndigbo, starting from the Indigenization Decree of 1970 conducted after the civil war in a manner deliberately calculated to shut Ndigbo out of ownership of vital economic assets.