Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state has assured that his administration would continue to promote peaceful coexistence between the indigenes and the residents despite alleged plots by some opposition to instigate crisis among them.
Obiano, in a press release issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba, said that Anambra was most peaceful in the country, a status which according to him, continuously attract unprecedented investments to the state.
This included the recently commissioned Coscharis Rice Mill at Igbariam in Anambra East Local Government Area which brought in the Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele and Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Bagudu.
According to him, the massive investment did not go down well with the opposition “which have consequently been sponsoring all manner of lurid stories in the social media against the people and government of Anambra State.”
“ Having failed in a video to incite Anambra State to rise against innocent and law-abiding Fulani people in our midst, they have now resorted to online reports and fake videos claiming that Governor Obiano has promised any Fulani person who kills an Anambra person over cattle business N500,000 and N500,000 to any Anambra indigene who murders a Fulani over his crops.
“This is an unintelligent attempt at disinformation. Murder is a serious crime everywhere in the world, and it carries capital punishment in Nigeria. It cannot be compensated for with money, according to the Nigerian law. Human life is, indeed, sacred. The fact that some faceless politicians can carry their propaganda to the level of equating human life with money shows a total lack of respect for human life, let alone human dignity. These characters show no regard for law, order and peaceful co-existence,” the governor added.
The governor, while condemning the attempt to incite the citizens among themselves using a viral trending videos, advised politicians to device other better means of selling their manifestoes rather than spreading hate speeches capable of causing ethno religious war all over the country.
