Lack of resources, social amenities and political instability have been described as bane of development of the Nigeria nation.
A lecturer in the Music Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Alvan-Ikoku-Nwamara, made the assertion in Awka while delivering a keynote speech when the ABS Managing Director, Sir Chido Obidiegwu received Eastern Nigeria merit award.
Addressing the gathering, Professor Ikoku-Nwamara, whose topic “Strategizing indigenous Igbo ideologies and concepts for the development of the eastern region” centered on the theme “The development of the eastern region, a call for all stakeholders”, regretted that the Easterners known for hard work, resilience and accommodating spirit have now become a shadow of themselves because they have deviated from their true selves.
He identified over dependence on oil as another factor that caused the Easterners to become lazy, thereby resorting to unverifiable means of making money.
The keynote speaker cautioned against movement of youths to foreign countries where a lot of them met their untimely death, while those alive are subjected to all manners of ill treatments, all in the name of making quick money, while most families have been plunged into perpetual debt in a bid to borrow money with which to send their children abroad, believing that they will pay back, only for their children to meet worse hardship than is felt in Nigeria.
He called for a total turn around to the norms and way of life of the easterners, advising those in leadership positions to look inwards and know how to put things in order so as to sanitize the system.
The Managing Director of ABS, Sir Chido who said that the theme of the event “The development of the eastern region, a call for all stakeholders” was apt, noted that there must be unity if the easterners can find their footings again, as according to him, a center cannot divide against itself.
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