Orji Uzor Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State says the marginalization of South East will be solved politically and not by sitting at home.
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB had ordered a weekly sit-at-home in the region in solidarity with its detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Kalu who represents Abia North Senatorial District in the national assembly faulted the approach adopted by the group. He said it would damage the economy of the region.
Speaking in Abuja on Sunday while playing host to the Prelate & Moderator of The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria His Eminence Nzie Nsi Eke, Kalu noted that sitting at home will not be helpful to the economy of the South-East and the nation at large, adding that it will create more poverty.
According to him: “We are having a political problem. It could be solved politically not by oppressing people of Eastern Nigeria again, telling them to sit at home and not go to look for daily bread.
“If you don’t go for your daily bread, you will not be able to continue. Reading from Bible, it says by your handwork I will bless you, if you don’t have a handwork, you will not be blessed.
“For God’s sake, people should allow individuals to go and do their businesses”.
The Chief Whip of the Senate said the federal government has made resources available for the procurement of weapons, expressing optimism that with the arrival of the new equipment, the war against insurgency will in the next eight months be gradually coming to an end.
He also appealed to Nigerians to uphold the tenets of democracy by embracing peace and unity for the good of all.
In his remarks, the Prelate & Moderator of The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria His Eminence Nzie Nsi Eke expressed optimism that those who seek to truncate the unity of the country will not succeed. He, therefore, called for the empowerment of youths so that they will be instruments of peace and stability of the country.
