“We have attacked the symptoms for 24 years. When will the country begin to address the root cause of the frustration and bitterness that inspired the agitation?”
Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, has lamented that the protracted agitations, insecurity, and other challenges facing the South-East have persisted, while the government over the years has been addressing symptoms and not root causes of the problems.
Founder of IYM who doubles as Secretary Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, and Deputy Secretary, Igbo Leaders of Thought ILT, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, in a statement, noted that it had become impossible to keep quiet in the face of continuing sad preference by the authorities to consistently ignore the root cause of the problem while addressing only the symptoms of a much deeper disease.
According to him, “Symptoms of malaria parasite in the body include headache, weakness of the body, high temperature, painful joints, dizziness and loss of appetite. It would be proper to run tests, identify the degree of the malaria parasite in the bloodstream, apply anti-malaria drugs, clean the blocked drainage, flush and wash away the stagnant dirty water that serves as a breeding habitat for the mosquito and then sleep under treated mosquito net.
“Within days the anti-malaria drugs will demolish malaria, the cleared gutters ensure mosquito is gone from our environment, while the net protects us as we sleep, and we’ll be fit as a fiddle. But refusing to address the problem from the root, and addressing only the symptoms, by importing menthol balms from overseas to rub on the joint pains or buying trailer-load of analgesic just for the headache, or even soaking hundreds of wet towels to bring down the fever, etc, will not take away our malaria.”
He added.
