Christmas…Insecurity In S/East Affect Celebration

This Christmas was fairly uneventful in many villages due to the rising instability in the South East.

Even while many people wanted to return home to rejoice with their families, their relatives actually prevented them from doing so.

In reality, due to insecurity, about 90 percent of individuals who traveled back to Nigeria for Christmas from abroad were unable to reach home towns in the South East because of the threat posed by kidnappers and gunmen operating in the area, people are indeed terrified to go home.

One of the individuals who had returned from Europe with the intention of traveling to the East was forced to abandon the plan and spend the time in Lagos.

In a video he made apparently out of frustration, he said: “ Almost 90% of those who returned to Nigeria from abroad for Christmas could not travel to their villages in the South East because of insecurity.

The foreign currencies they would have spent with their people are being spent in Lagos hotels. Their village people are even coming to Lagos to see them.

“All these are happening because the people of South East do not want to listen and the ultimate losers are the poor people in the villages.”

“As a result of this ugly development, the economy of South East is going down the drains. As it stands, everything in the South East is in shambles.”

“The Christmas celebration in the South East is total rubbish because people are afraid to go home. It is the people that invited this calamity on themselves and blaming outsiders for their woes”.