Lack Of Political Awarenes, Huge Challenge In South-East – Dr Osmund Agbo

• Osmund accused the populace of constantly seeking to externalise the blame for the wrong things occurring in the area.
• Explaining the idea behind the founding of the Ikengaonline, an online newspaper, he said it is to act as a truly independent media organization that tells the story of the southeast and ensures public accountability in governance across the region.

Osmund Agbo, a US–based Nigerian doctor and author says the biggest problem of people in the south-east is their lack of political sophistication.

Osmund said this during an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo, host of 90Minutes Africa.

“One of the biggest problems in Igbo land is that we are not politically ophisticated,” the author said.

“We don’t seem to care to know about what is going on in our place.

Ignoring the “fact that we don’t do our own part,” Osmund accused the populace of constantly seeking to externalise the blame for the wrong things occurring in the area.

“Our own part is to put leaders on the spot so that they will realize that people are now asking questions.

“What it takes for the leaders to succeed in impunity is the fact that the people don’t care.

“The moment they start knowing that people are listening and watching what they are doing, you’ll see that things will start to change in our place.”

The governors of the five south-east states were also chastised by the attending physician at Memorial Hermann Hospital’s Department of Pulmonary/Critical Care in Houston, Texas, for their refusal to acknowledge local government autonomy and for treating local councils as mere extensions of their respective departments and ministries.

Explaining the idea behind the founding of the Ikengaonline, an online newspaper, he said it is to act as a truly independent media organization that tells the story of the southeast and ensures public accountability in governance across the region.

“We believe that most of the problem we have in Igbo land is because of bad governance,” the co-author of “Dis Life No Balance” he asserted.

“Though it’s not peculiar to the southeast but we always have a way of making things worse.”

The governors in the region are acting like
emperors. So we want to beam a searchlight on those in positions of public trust so that the public will be sensitized enough to ask.