‘Igbo marginalising themselves’

By Raphael Ede
Enugu

Publicity Secretary of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI), Ogbonna Onyeisi, has declared that the Ndigbo were marginalising themselves, both politically and economically.
Onyeisi, who declared this recently in an interview with our correspondent, noted that some state governments in the South-east “hardly send their presidential nominees to fill their quotas at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Study (NIPPS), Kuru, Jos, even without reasonable justification, only to turn round to blame others for our marginalisation.”

“The attitude of political leaders towards filling our quotas in national scheme like NIPSS is not only away of marginalising ourselves but a sabotage against Igbo nation as a whole. There are so many other federal positions today in various MDAs that our leaders careless to fill while our young people even with their education qualification are roaming the streets,” he said.

Onyeisi, the only Igbo elected into the executive of the Alumni Association of the Institute, recently in Abuja, said “it is high time our leaders rise up to the occasion and do what is needful and stop lamenting of marginalisation.”
He, however, promised that the new executives of AANI would build on past achievements in order to reposition the association.

“We unanimously agreed during the inaugural meeting of the executive held in our secretariat in Abuja to do the needful and even go extra miles to take AANI to greater height towards the development of Nigerian society.
“We also agreed that AANI will no longer be just an association but will rise to its expectation as a National Think Tank, a platform where national policies will be discussed and implementation strategies proffered to achieve the noble mission of NIPSS – towards a better society.”

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