A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches, meaning you can easily foresee the future of something through the character and tell-tale signs it shows today.
The overwhelming drums of discord emanating from various ethnic juggernauts as a result of ‘false alarms’ of attack on innocent citizens in the South by Fulani herdsmen calls for an holistic analysis of the issues in an unbiased perspective for national and food security with the sole aim of tackling the severe hate parasite and resentment infesting deep into our national horizon by dousing tension and calming frail nerves in the interest of peace, development and national cohesion.
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Breaking the shackles of conflicts needs the commanding efforts of unbiased or sincere moderators early enough in a fight or preferably before a fight. The dearth of moderators early in conflicts results in hullabaloo, leaving on its trail tears and blood. The consequences of wars, whether commissioned or uncommissioned wars, are far-eaching and breed sores of vengeance in the aftermath. It’s despicable to have such clamors and incitements at this period of the just concluded globally revered and spiritually rewarding month of Ramadan – a symbol of love, empathy and compassion for one another.
In order to win this hate war instigated by the ‘ghosts’ in the social media, a war that is fast destroying our old hospitality sense of brotherliness, political purveyors of Fulanization and Islamisation must disabuse and de-intoxicate their mindset against divisive tendencies. The outdated pre independence historical perspectives have long outlived the reasons for which strategists of independence fighters employed tactics to outsmart competing ethnic groups.
Knowing the porosity of our borders and the unchecked migration of foreigners from war-torn Libya, with attendant arms proliferation, I suspect a foreign invasion of our territories by trans-border bandits in the guise of Fulani herdsmen.
I commend the president of MACBAN for his visit to the South East to mend bridges and I suggest he hire a national peace ambassador to do the peace bidding across the nation in earnest to douse tensions. My suggested ‘National Peace Ambassador’ portfolio for MACBAN must not employ threats, propaganda, slick advertisements and PR campaigns as we see now because all these tools are for despots or the defeatist points of a threatened. set Rather he should employ the historical and biological perspectives in the sweet memories of our productive ethnic partnerships from the successes of our enduring food supply-chains which has helped increase nutrition, the gains inherent in our diversity as evident in the event of FESTAC 77,our cross marriages, etc. Analyzing what is right or wrong or who is waxing or waning is needless and obstructive to achieving peace.
Statesmanship is not an exclusive preserve or title of former political office holders but for persons possessing skills in managing public affairs for the common good as there is no sitting on the fence in nation building.
Mr Akinola Iwilade,
iwiakinola@gmail.com
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