The seemingly endless wasting of lives all over Nigeria under whatever guise has attracted serious admonition from an elder statesman and manufacturing giant, Dr Chike Obidigbo. The advice was contained in a 7-page treatise which he presented to journalists in Awka on Wednesday in commemoration of 2024 Democracy Day. Dr Obidigbo while commending President Bola Tinubu for his bold steps in confronting certain areas of our national life, took a cursory look at key issues bedeviling the nation’s unity, and economic/socio-political advancement as it concerns the Igbo nation especially.
Describing the presentation as his “personal views on the current dilemma of the Igbo Nation, with the prevailing socio-political and economic challenges defying Nigeria’s continuing search for economic stability, social harmony, and political unity”, Dr Obidigbo noted that “the most painful thing about all these deaths, whether of our security personnel or of our civilians, youths or women, is that they are all our people being destroyed; our youths, our so-called leaders of our tomorrow. When we willfully and ignorantly wipe them off today, who then will lead our already bleak tomorrow out of the current darkness we created through our ignorance and foolishness? “This is the only country I know that does not value the lives of her youths, in fact of anyone, infants, youths, men and women. Our people are killed anyhow, everywhere, on the streets, inside praying houses, in their farms, .