An activist and the Executive Director, Foundation for Good Governance and Social Change, Mr Austine Osakue, has blamed the nation’s security challenges on injustice.
Osakue who stated this in Benin on Friday, while speaking with journalists submitter that addressing insecurity in the country without looking at the basic cause, would amount to doing nothing.
The activist who also made a call for the country to practice true federalism, added, a society that elevated injustice would search in vain for peace, stressing, “there cannot be peace in the absence of justice”.
He called for merits above favouritism, saying such would ensure that people without ‘helpers’ would have a sense of belonging.
“Admission, whether in the university and Unity Schools should be given on the basis of those who merit it and not on the basis of who you know in the corridor of power. The same goes for appointments,” he emphasised.
Similarly, Osakue said the call for restructuring or call for creation of more state would not proffer any solution to the numerous challenges that had bedeviled the country, adding that such an exercise would merely see the nation dancing in the same circle.
“I do not see restructuring as a permanent solution, nor do I see state creation or asking everybody to go their way as the answer. We created more state and we are now 36 and yet we are worst.
“If we like we split into 20 more states, that is just the beginning, may have to split again. I remember attending an event in Port Harcourt and I was reminded by a man from Bayelsa that I am not a Niger Deltan.
“Education is an army that liberate the mind; the minds of most Nigerians have not been liberated. Everything we do in Nigeria is on the basis of sentiment, make no mistake about it, it is not about religion, it is not about ethnicity.
“It is a few people who want to satisfy their personal vested interest that throw these two factors up,” he posited.
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