Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi has expressed the fear that the declaration of the South-East as a red zone due to the spate of insecurity will deprive the area of federal projects. Umahi made the remark on Tuesday in Abakaliki while inaugurating the new leadership of the South-East Traditional Rulers Council, headed by Eze Charles Mkpuma, the chairman of the council in Ebonyi. He said that Federal Government’s ministries recently declared the southeast as a red zone because of the high wave of insecurity in the area. According to him, the insecurity in the zone, occasioned by agitations for self-determination, amounts to “self-inflicted injury” by the people. “The declaration of southeast as a red zone by these ministries means that what is due to us would be difficult to come.

Source: Punch September 22, 2021 05:37 UTC