Gwamcee News
The United Middle Belt Indigenous Peoples Congress (UMBIPC) has scheduled an emergency meeting to tackle the escalating insecurity, kidnappings, and other critical challenges facing the region.
The special session, taking place in Abuja on Saturday May 25, will bring together national executives to discuss the escalating insecurity, widespread starvation and the urgent need for peace-building in the Middle Belt.
The meeting aims to find solutions to the ongoing attacks on farmers and villagers, and to explore strategies for promoting unity and unlocking the region’s economic potential.
In a statement to BlueFame Media, UMBIPC’s President-General and host of the forum, Barr. Abuka Omababa, said the call to brainstorm “comes at a critical point in the history of our people, where we need to be proactive and spearhead a strong peace-building effort to ensure lasting peace for our people, even generations yet unborn.”
Describing the incessant attacks and killings in the region as an aberration, Comrade Omababa said Middle-Belters were a peace-loving and gentle people.
His words: “We cannot continue to fold our arms and watch as our farmers and innocent villagers in the Middle Belt are being slaughtered relentlessly, yet the government refuses to do the needful while their houses and farmland are completely destroyed.”
The activist however said the indigenous peoples should not be seen as weaklings in the face of threats, as they were well capable of finding ways to assure their self-preservation and survival.
“While our ever constant goal is one united and progressive Nigeria, our first priority remains the survival of our people, hence this meeting is to brainstorm and find ways to keep lasting peace in the Middle Belt, where everyone can live safely and secure without any fear of harm.”
