I therefore most respectfully invite this Assembly to reaffirm its or one to want to run swiftly through the entire gamut of the grounds faith in this proposal, and aver the dedication of this Organisation already covered by previous speakers in order to avoid the charge to its early implementation. Freedom, equality, justice and dignity for our people impel us to at length on a subject already fully treated by an expert. Nonetheless, this course of action. The economic independence, progress and self-respect of our Continent demand it. And the welfare and happiness of our struggling and trusting peoples compulsively enjoin, it upon those of us on whose shoulders the mantle of African, leadership now rests.
We cannot secure peace without social justice and social harmony
Winning the peace relief; rehabilitation; reconciliation; reconstruction; and development. Briefly, ‘let us see what they mean caused by two things: much poverty, much discontent’. We are all in practical terms witnesses to the fact that both of them cancerous social maladies Peace is a positive state of quiet, tranquility, and social harmony and many more were very much present with us in pre-war Nigeria, Negatively, it means the absence not only war, but also of large and threaten to continue in style now and in the future sea violence and rioting as well as or extensive and C\ or-recurrent Reconstruction and development can be said to mean one and industrial strife. and suchlike social unrest. I the same thing. They are no more and no less than circumstantial In this sense, it is clear that we cannot be said to have won the aspects of identical operations. For instance, when we begin to peace when hostilities ceased. Indeed, we can only be said to hay . rebuild the damaged bridge at Onitsha, or to construct a new one at secured peace (including industrial peace) when social justice. which Jebba, we would, at the time of the operations, be engaged in each is the only fountain of social harmony, reigns supreme in our land.! case in the work of adding to the wealth of the nation. The only The immediate relief’ of the sick and the starving and the difference would be that, in the one case, we would only be trying rehabilitation of those whose homes and families had been shattered to restore, with such necessary improvement as may be dictated by and scattered, or who had been uprooted from their normal places, prevailing ideas, what had been destroyed, whilst in the other, we of residence or displaced from their regular occupations, are would be putting in what had not been there before.
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transient but indispensable steps in the process of reconciliation. I Furthermore, there is a political necessity for treating Relief is scheduled by the Federal Military Government to be reconstruction and development as mere aspects of identical completed by the end of March next. But rehabilitation is to take a operations. Just as there is urgent need to reconstruct the roads, I ittle longer. bridges, etc., damaged in the areas of direct conflict, so there is War is an infernal and satanic business. CiviI war is the worst crying need to reconstruct old roads, bridges, etc., and build new form of all wars and quarrels. When, therefore, brothers and sisters, ones, in other parts of the country not directly affected by actual friends and relations, and comrades-in-arm in the national and fighting. The Federal Military Government recognises these independence struggles, fiercely ranged themselves against one important needs; and accordingly, the country’s next periodic another in the deadly and bloody combat of war, as Nigerians did development plan is going to embrace both so-called post-war of late, the cause or causes of the fraetrieidal quarrel must be looked reconstruction and development for beyond the mad ambition of one megalomaniac. That is to say, ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’ Consequently, apart from that whilst reconciliation must, in the circumstances, necessarily post-war material development, there is also a great and urgent need begin with the removal of Ojukwu from the scene, it would be to reconstruct and develop the minds of Nigerians on both sides of disastrous to think that the work of reconciliation is ipso facto the fighting line by moral, religious, and civil instructions. Since completed by the mere act of such removal. It must be realised that wars, quarrels, machinations, and all other evils are conceived, and the causes of the last civil war are much deeper than Ojukwu’s begin in the minds of men, it is there that we must seck to eradicate reckless intransigence. It appears to me that they lie embedded in them, or nip them in the bud.
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