By Chinonso Alozie

Owerri – The Imo state government on Monday debunked speculations that the federal government has established an Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Ehime Mbano Council Area of the state.

The Imo state Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Declan Emelumba disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri while reacting to rumours about the establishment of an IDP camp in the state.

The government was worried that those they described as enemies of Nigeria decided to distort harmless Information from the National Refugees Commission to pitch Igbos against other parts of the country.

It further explained that what was being built at Nsu was a training facility for skills acquisition programmes for the people of the South East and not for Nigerians from other parts of the country.

According to Emelumba, “The purveyor of the disinformation, is a notorious propagandist who had severally dished out seditious materials, from his infamous hate speech gospel ministry” to set the nation on fire. The latest mischief by Uba was intended to incite Ndigbo against Northerners as a means of making the country ungovernable for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“This is a man who is notorious for churning out hate speeches, founded on stark ignorance of public politics and current affairs, against Northerners. He deliberated and twisted the news from the Refugees Commission to incite Ndigbo against other Nigerians. We wondered why the security agencies had not arrested Uba, who in a widely circulated video called on Ndi Imo to rise against other Nigerians. By feeding the people with biased information, Uba was laying the ground for a large-scale insurrection against the federal government.

“The training centre at Ehime Mbano was the South East slot as other geo-political zones got their slots and would train their people accordingly. At no time was it contemplated that refugees would be brought from either the North or the West to be trained in the Imo state.

“The people of Ehime Mbano, Okigwe zone, and Imo state should ignore the warmongering calls by Uba to rise against the federal government.”

Also, he said: “Uba as a troublemaker who has gone ahead to resurrect a cloned Thisday publications where Governor Hope Uzodimma was allegedly pledging to marry off Imo women to Fulani settlers. The act was a grand design orchestrated by Uba and his sponsors to unleash another wave of insecurity in Imo state.”

However, the commissioner urged the security agencies to wade into this wave of incitement of the people against the government before it escalated into an ethnic conflagration.