Rt. Rev Ndubisi Obi, the Bishop of the Diocese of Nnewi Anglican Communion, has urged the Federal Government to focus more on apprehending bandits than attacking the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Eastern Security Network, ESN.
Bishop Obi decried that fact that the Federal Government allows bandits to go scot-free while deploying its military actions against agitators.
The Bishop who spoke while addressing a press briefing at the Bishop’s court on national issues to announce the 9th session of Diocese of Nnewi Anglican Communion Synod, Anambra State, scheduled to kick off on September 2 at St. James Church, Ichi, Ekwusigo Council Area, accused government officials of creating more problems in the country than ensuring solutions to the country’s challenges.
Obi urged the government to address the country’s challenges in order to stop the agitation.
“When you talk about agitation, what leads to that is when the government of the day is not sensitive to what the people are passing through. Instead of doing the right thing, they do the wrong ones.
“So, the Church cannot but advise on what government should do to stop what brings about the agitation.
“Just look at the way they are handling security issues in this country. I continue to ask myself why the government should send the military to pursue the IPOB and its ESN in Imo State when bandits in Northern Nigeria kidnap school children and students of higher institutions at will. Sometimes they will be more than 100 and are herded into the forest for ransom. And the bandits do these things and go scot-free but every effort is channelled towards the pursuit of agitators,” he said.
