The Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), an Igbo elite body, has called on wealthy and well-to-do people of the tribe to bring investment into Igbo lands, News About Nigeria reports.
The Chairman of the ADF Board, Bishop Obi Onubuogu, made this call while speaking at the pre-launch of Blossom City Estate in Enugu by a Lagos-based real estate firm, Pinto Realty Limited.
He noted that the importance of investing in Igbo Land can not be overemphasised, as it will also provide jobs for the youth and stop their migration out of Igbo Land.
According to him, with such investment and orientation of youths who form a greater percentage of the active work development force, Alaigbo (Igbo Land), will witness rapid growth.
He also expressed his joy that the firm shares the same vision and philosophy as Aku Ruo Ulo, which means that wealth should reach home with the ADF, adding that the foundation has been campaigning since 2014 on the urgent need for Ndigbo in the Diaspora to develop Igbo land by investing massively in the South East Zone.
He, therefore, called on the five governors of the South East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo to initiate investor-friendly policies that will attract investors to their states and urged them to key into the Aku Ruo Ulo campaign to fast-track development and industrialization of the South East region.
“Right now, the whole trend is, and it has dawned on us, Ndigbo, that Aku ruo Ulo is what should be our song these days. We have to drum this song into our ears and those of our children,” he stated.
Speaking also, Abia Onyike, the acting general secretary of the ADF, commended Pinto for the decision to invest in Enugu.
According to him, even though the Igbos are known to be very great migrants, the time has come for them to get back to their place to lay the foundation for the internal process of development and industrialisation.
