Group decries spate of insecurity, unemployment in Imo

Imo Young Professionals, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) of Imo citizens, on Tuesday expressed displeasure with the spate of insecurity and unemployment in the state in recent times.

Mr Chris Anyanwu, Lead Convener of the group, said this in a news conference in Abuja.
Anyanwu said that insecurity and unemployment had increased beyond the imagination of Imo people.

Anyanwu urged Gov. Hope Uzodinma to present to the people a workable blueprint on how to tackle problem of unemployment and insecurity in the state.

“We have said it before and we are restating it today, that we challenge the government of Imo to present to the people a workable blueprint on how the government intends to tackle the problem of unemployment in the state.

“This is with the view to prospectively rechanneling the enormous human capital resources that abound in the state,” he said.

Anyanwu, who reiterated the concern of his group about the spate of insecurity, said that the state was gradually degenerating to theatre of slaughter.

He said that there was general sense of civil unrest in the state with various degrees of assassinations.

“Last month a 64-year-old lawyer and former chairperson of Imo branch of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ndionyeoma Nwankwo, was murdered in cold blood right in his office at 43 School Road, Owerri.

“Just last week, a young man by name Ukachukwu Amadigwe, was gunned down in his prime in Umunnoha Autonomous community, Mbaitoli LGA, on account of frivolous Ezeship tussle.”

The Convener, who called on the governor to shun political showmanship, said it was time to rise to his responsibilities of protecting lives and property.

Anyanwu said that in the last one year, the state had maintained the status of Nigeria’s unemployment capital with the latest National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS’) report.

According to him, cybercrime, otherwise called yahoo yahoo, is on the increase in the state because education is de-emphasised.

Anyanwu, however, called for a collaboration of all Imo people to drive development in the state by urging the governor to galvanise policies that would rescue the state from the doldrums of food and physical insecurity.