South-East stakeholders under the aegis of Concerned Igbo Groups have vowed to resist the implementation of any RUGA project in any part of the South-East.The groups described the RUGA project as “reverse colonisation”, stressing that it offers no commercial value or benefit to the people of the region.They also asserted that cattle rearing is a private business.The statement released on Monday was jointly signed on behalf of the groups by Ben Nwankwo and Evans Nwankwo, Executive Directors of Ambassadors for Self-Determination, USA; Sylvester Onyia, President of American Veterans Of Igbo Descent, AVID; Maxwell Dede of Rising Sun Group and Rev Father Augustine Odimegwa.Opposing plans by the Federal Government to establish RUGA settlements in the South-East, the groups alleged that the project is a hidden plan to take over their ancestral lands and hand them to Fulani settlers, using agriculture as an excuse.
NNPP rejects ADC coalition Says They won’t abandon Their party.
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has explained that it chose not to join the coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) because it does not want to abandon its own political structure for an alliance whose direction and outcome remain uncertain.The Secretary of the party’s Board of Trustees, […]
