Nshirim made this known in a government owned radio station, Imo Broadcasting Coporation (IBC) Owerri, Vanguard reports.
According to him, this was part of what he discovered during the yuletide season.
He said: “While others were enjoying their Christmas, I was moving all over the places because it is my duty as information commissioner to know how far I have informed the people as well as to get feedback from them.
“In what could be described as a shocking experience while going round I discovered to my horror, few things, that our people are not informed.
“70% of Igbo do not listen to news, they do not read newspaper.”
“I keep telling you, we say we are intelligent, we say we are informed but that Hausa boy that cleans your shoe has a radio in his pocket,” he simply put.
Meanwhile, Chief (Dr.) Simon Akobundu Okeke has said that the Igbos are fast losing their sense of hard work and unity and blamed this on the Biafra civil war and the individual desire to be king.
The former chairman of the Nigeria Police Service Commission noted that the title of Eze has become a source of disunity among Ndigbo as everyone clamours to rule.
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