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December 28, 2013

‘Insecurity: Nigeria should learn from past mistakes’

By Akoma Chinweoke

Worried by the   high level of insecurity in Nigeria, Ichie Ugochukwutubelu I of Ichida, High Chief R.U Ezemedolu has called on country’s leadership to be conscious of their  actions and to learn from their past mistakes and shortcomings so as to move the nation  forward.

Iche Ugochukwu, who disclosed this  in Lagos, warned that the state of insecurity in Nigeria is becoming worrisome considering the high rate at which innocent people fall to the guns of criminals  stressing that no week passes without report of unknown gunmen taking human lives in the streets.

The Igbo leader, based in Lagos, said the clamour for unity and peace in Nigeria would amount to flogging a dead horse  in a country where corruption, greed and injustice is now the order of the day.

He noted that the three years of Nigeria-Biafra civil war cost Igbos and the entire country  a lot of losses in terms of human and material resources and warned nation of  dangers of undergoing similar experience in the nearest future because of  reckless leadership mistakes’ and weakness.

The Igbo leader  advised President Goodluck Jonathan to commence the immediate restructuring of Nigeria to give every ethnic group a sense of belonging.