By DANLADI EMMANUEL
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It’s not more than five decades but Nigerians seem to have forgotten the massive massacre of 1946-1970 that they want to send more souls into the ground. The killings of Boko Haram, Niger Delta and Fulani herdsmen is not also enough but the youths hunger for more in the name of dividing the country.
The southeast Nigerians; Igbos are seriously clamoring for a republic in the of discrimination and marginalization. That for years they have been denied the right to contest for presidency, hold high political positions and also given little out of the national cake.
The Reformed Egbesu Fraternity (REF) demands that international bodies should intervene and divide the country into five republic; Arewa Islamic Republic, Biafra Republic, Oduduwa Republic, Republic of the Niger Delta and Republic of the Middle Belt. To them dividing the country is the best option to avoid national mayhem and marginalization.
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum is also on the same wagon threatening the Igbos residing in the North to evacuate back to Southeast before October 1st, though only to those supporting Biafra agitation.
The question therefore is, would this division bring peace in the country? Or we are just going to waste the lives of innocent people? Well, looking out of the boarder, did the division of South Sudan and North brought peace or more wars?
There are Igbos’ who are born and brought up in the North, schooled in the North, established businesses in the north and even marry northerners likewise some Hausas in eastern and western part of the country. Will it be easy living what you’ve labored for years? Or will it be easy dividing your family? Even if the country is divided, there will still be marginalization within the same suggested Republics.
The former head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon who knew the cost of war pleaded the youths not to be involved in anything fight but to love the country in right and wrong, though, asking for positive change from the federal government. It is pertinent to note that many children died of kwashiorkor during the civil war, some have become disabled and thousands are death.
Let’s embrace peace for it’s the only way out and not division. The federal government should try and clear the issue of marginalization for it pains a lot. The women are not left behind, for they are indispensable group in terms of development, they should plea with their husbands to embrace peace.
Nigeria security should also improve as Professor Sulieman Salau of mass communication, ABU avers that “without security there will be no peace and without peace there will be no development”.
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