Bishop Nkwoagu Speaks On The National Conference

                                                  

Anglican Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese Ebonyi State, Bishop Monday Nkwoagu has charged Nigerian Delegates to the National conference to be ready to pay the supreme sacrifices to save the country or risk her unity in the nearest future. 

 

Bishop Nkwoagu who spoke to newsmen in Nnewi yesterday warned the delegates to the National conference to be committed and patriotic .

He said : “You see, we have been suffering from social and religious injustices in this country. What is happening in this country particularly in the Northern parts of the country is getting out of control, see how people are been slaughtered everyday in thousands as if they are not human being.

‘’A lot of people are been marginalized for instance, the South East part of this country, is the only region that has six state while others has seven and above. It appears as if there is insecurity in the country but these are artificial caused by fellow Nigerians there is no employment opportunities and crime wave and high cost of leaving, is an impendent to our national growth and development, when God has endowed us with abundant human and material resources.

On the opposition to the conference , Bishop Nkwoagu said: ‘’Remember I said in the beginning, may God help us others we may eventually break up, even though, the president has spelt out the modalities and rules including secluded areas that are no go areas that will not in any way solve our problems.

‘’The country, I repeat will not stand as a one unified nation if nothing is done to address the imbalances in Nigerian democratic system of government. Of course there is no end in sight to the marginalization, economic and social injustice as well as religious intolerance among Different Ethnic groups in Nigeria. What the United Nation Proposed in Nigeria in 2015 may be inevitable. You know we have a problem of leadership especially among the Igbo Nation and this is the more reason why we are marginalized and underdeveloped. We lack federal infrastructural development in the South East Zone for instance, look at the Enugu, Onitsha express way and the second Niger bridge.

‘’Our colonial masters did not consider the interest of these ethnic groups with different culture and tradition during amalgamation of this country in 1914. What they did was to lump us together in a way that will benefit them and this has been the bane of our problems, hence we have any stable unity.

Nkwoagu concluded : ‘’The representatives   of Igbo nation and the conference should know that their nomination is a challenge and therefore should be prepared to defend our exist in this country as part and divisibility of the Nigerian nation instead of going there, to negotiate for money, otherwise we will continue suffer marginalization’’.