Many shared and applauded the speech by Mal. Nura Lemu on the floor of the National Conference. Some others like our friend and teacher Mal. Attahiru Muazu thought the speech was without issues (I got this only from the implication of a word or two he used). But looking at the speech again I saw that it did appeal to emotions and good feelings of readers, but it did not attempt to raise an issue of concern as outlined in the following by Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed: The Conference will be engaged in quarrels over composition of Committees, rules and agenda, while Northerners ask who exactly is killing them in towns and villages in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa and Kaduna states. No one is sure what Boko Haram is anymore; and questions are being asked over the claims that nomads-farmers clashes are actually about Fulani cattle-rearers seeking food for their cattle, and villagers are only protecting their little produce and their pieces of land. Nothing is more pressing for the North than to put an end to the horrendous assaults on the lives of our people. We will not find answers at this Conference. And we will not find answers to the decaying infrastructure in the North; or solutions to millions of our young citizens who are uneducated, unskilled and unemployed; or solutions to the dangerous trend which sheds so much Northern blood every time elections come. We will not find answers at this Conference to the questions over how Nigerians can ensure that the elections of 2015 do reflect the will of the people; that the North does not become another battleground for an election that could make it an even weaker component on the Nigerian federation. Yes, in what way do you think Nura Lemu tried to address the real issues in that speech? Aminu Gamawa
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:08:37 +0000
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