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OHANAEZE Ndigbo, the pan Igbo socio-cultural organisation has said that Ndigbo will be angry with President Olusegun Obasanjo if he fails to implement the recommendations of the recently concluded National Political Reform Conference.
ENUGU - OHANAEZE Ndigbo, the pan Igbo socio-cultural organisation has said that Ndigbo will be angry with President Olusegun Obasanjo if he fails to implement the recommendations of the recently concluded National Political Reform Conference.
President-General of the organisation, Professor Joe Irukwu, who made this known while briefing reporters at the end of a meeting where Ohanaeze delegates to the confab briefed Igbo leaders on the outcome of the dialogue, observed that various agitations by ethnic groups in the country necessitated the conference. He said non-implementation of the recommendations especially as those on national unity would mean prolonging the evil day.
He also said Ohanaeze was not against the move by some organisations to convoke a parallel conference under PRONACO, stressing that the apex socio-cultural organisation would participate in it in as much as the dialogue would foster national unity, justice, fair-play and equity.
'I don't think the Federal Government is against the conference. Ohanaeze Ndigbo is not against any dialogue that is aimed at moving the country forward and we will participate in it," he said.
Irukwu said the just concluded confab was a success because it afforded the people opportunity to discuss on various contentious issues bothering on constitutional, political, environmental, laws, security, poverty alleviation, erosion, employment among others, insisting that any attempt to ignore the recommendations arising from the conference could be dangerous for the nation.
He said: 'I can understand the position of our youths who are agitating. The level of poverty in the land, the level of degradation in infrastructure and so on are responsible. How can a youth who went to the university and graduated cannot get a job? His security is not guaranteed. Life, to him, is meaningless. That is why we went to the conference to make sure that our youths get job after education, create conducive atmosphere for living and improved welfare."