RUGA Suspension Not Enough, Initiative Should Be Totally Abolished — Ohanaeze Youths

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Youth Wing, has rejected the suspension of the controversial Federal Government’s RUGA settlement scheme, demanding for outright cancellation of the project, saying only outright abolition will assuage Nigerians’ anger.

They said it was not enough to suspend RUGA, “but more reasonable to totally abolish it” in view of the public outcry against it from every region of the country.”

Ohanaeze youths, in a statement by its Deputy National Youth Leader, Dr. Kingsley Dozie, however, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for summoning courage to suspend the policy, but said “he should go beyond suspension and totally scrape the toxic proposal.”

According to the statement, “in as much as we commend Mr. President for heeding the voice of reason to suspend Ruga, what we need is total abolition and not mere suspension.

“In view of the tension and row triggered by the policy as well as the nationwide condemnation that trailed it in the past few days, the right thing to do is to totally jettison the idea in the interest of peace and national unity.

“For the President to alley the doubt and suspicion in many quarters that the said suspension is apparently to douse tension for the moment, he needs to permanently rest this RUGA saga by cancelling it completely and get another option.”