By Paul Onomuakpokpo
No one who is actuated
by a keen sense of justice and patriotism that is hallmarked by a desire that
the nation’s cohesion remains inviolable would inveigh against efforts to give
the people of the south-eastern part of the country the assurance that there is
no deliberate state policy to consign them to a benighted realm of
the polity. There is the overarching need for such an assurance since 47 years
after the three years of the civil war that inflicted monumental catastrophes
on their lives and property, they are still chafing under a
sense of alienation. There is a constant reminder of this exclusion by the fact
of their being the only people who make up the so-called tripod in the
country who are yet to produce the nation’s president.
