Violence:Umahi Waves Olive Branch 

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David Umahi: Governor Umahi join APC for Ebonyi State sake of dis reasons -  BBC News Pidgin
Governor David Umahi has appealed  to the bandits terrorizing Ebonyi State to sheath their swords, saying he was  ready to empower them with a view to making them better in the state.
His action was sequel to  plea  Saturday attack by gunmen on the Abaomege police station in Onicha Local Government Area of the state,where a police one was killed and another one injured by the bandits.
Speaking  during a Church Service at the Christ Embassy Church, Mile 50, Abakaliki, Umahi charged Nigerian leaders and the leaders of the South-East zone in particular, to rise and join hands in tackling the current security situation in the country.
“It is time to embrace peace. I have said, lay down your arms, am ready to empower all our brothers, all the bandits, it is time to sit down with the market women, the downtrodden, find out their grievances, no bandit is after me and they cannot and nothing can stop me from supervising projects, no power can stop it,” Umahi said.
Umahi chided those who, according to him, are into blame game, instead of offering advice on how to surmount the security challenges, noting that leaders must brace up to the current challenge.
“What is happening in the South-East is not peculiar to South East, it is all over the country; and so, the leaders must sit up. We can’t continue to pretend as leaders. In this State, we have so much battle and the battle is stomach Infrastructure, they don’t want us to build the hospitals, the schools, etc. They want us to share the money but we say no.
He announced that the King David University of Medical Sciences would commence academic activities before the end of September 2021 and expressed optimism that the center would end all forms of Medical Tourism in the Country.
Umahi,who  restated  his commitment to seeing the first aircraft land in the Ebonyi International Airport before the end of the year, also noted that the Ebonyi Shopping mall was above 90% completion and would soon be open for use.
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