This has to be one of the days I sat back and thought through the kind of fault lines that we are treading on in Nigeria. Recently, I have been discreet about my travel plans but today I was in Kigali for the Omidyar Network Gathering. The team visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Oh My Lord. I have never seen anything this gory and horrible. How does man get this evil, kill his fellow humans in large numbers? The real truth of genocide is that it does not happen fast. It is built brick by brick. Folks like Ango Abduallahi, Ciroma, Junaid Mohammed, Edwin Clark, Asari Dokubo keeps saying South-South, Northern Elders etc. We are now labeled - Musli, Christian South, South-South, Ndigbo, South-East, Yoruba, Ijaw, Amigbo etc. Politicians are happy to stoke this as it promotes their agenda. Read comments on Punch, Vanguard and even Facebook and clearly you see the group think. I have a couple of bad scenarios that can happen and trigger our fault lines. I pray it does not happen. Even media organizations are happy to make this their headlines for profitable purposes e.g Northern Elders vow to frustrate Jonathan. Which Northern Elders? How many are they to qualify as the thoughts of the entire region? Why did we do a Muslim-Muslim President in 1993? Why did Awo choose a Southerner as a running mate and we lived with it? Why cant it happen now? It is a dangerous trend because we dont pray for that gory moment when Ade does not know Chinedu and Abubakar goes against Samuel. With what I saw today in Rwanda and tales of what happened in Kenya in 2007, I am very scared. We need an intact nation.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:12:50 +0000
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