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Buhari Govt Under Fire As China Kicks Out Igbo Indigenes

Buhari Govt Under Fire As China Kicks Out Igbo Indigenes

A South East group, the Igbo Renaissance Forum has reacted to the demeaning treatment currently being meted out on Igbo people in China.

Video clips emerged from different social media platforms yesterday showing Chinese authorities kicking Nigerians out of their hotels over Coronavirus fears.

In a statement on Wednesday, signed by International Coordinator, Nze Ugo-Akpe Onwuka (Oyi) the forum said it “received with amazement and shock the inhuman and demeaning treatment currently being meted out on Ndi Igbo and other Nigerians in China.”

The group warned that Ndi Igbo were

Buhari Govt Under Fire Over Exclusion Of South-East

Buhari Govt Under Fire Over Exclusion Of South-East

A South-East group, Igbo Renaissance Forum has knocked the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government over its approach to the ₦20,000 stimulus package for the ‘poorest in the society.’

The group said it was baffling that the government decided to share a total of ₦52bn to 2.6 million poor families in cash, without a clear system for accountability and transparency.

The Forum described as shocking government decision to give cash to individuals across the table, adding that by this, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, had flouted the government’s order on social distancing and clearly contravenes the