Comment: Ending Nigeria's unending conflicts

 

The State of affairs in Nigeria leaves a huge question mark on continuing leadership incapacity of leaders to address Nigeria’s worrisome violent crises. Women, able-bodied men and children, unschooled in the art and science of modern warfare, are daily slaughtered in Nigeria’s unending tribal and religious clashes. Some dominant tribes, along the West Coast are carrying out their endless hegemonic campaigns, using flimsy and unacceptable excuses to attack their neighbours with a view to annexing the land areas occupied by rival tribes. The leadership of such areas, as can be seen, have lost their reflex responses because of their complicity and apathy in the programme of mayhem.

          Another dimension of such armed hiccups is the use of white helicopters to funnel arms to fighters and herdsmen in the jungle, getting ready to attack major cities. If the exercise is in the interest of peace,the international community should be allowed to investigate the development now. As a major step, some of these invaders have been busy practising kidnapping, armed robbery and assassinations and the harvesting of human organs. Government of the day will not take steps to end the barbarism because it will have no areas for the declaration of a state of emergency. Once the declaration is made stooges are appointed and foreign settlers and herdsmen are shipped down to occupy the newly acquired territories.

This is a satanic programme and it should not be allowed to continue. Africa’s military flashpoints must be ended without further waste of time. Political representatives and law makers should rise and be counted in which ever country they are to amplify the satanic agenda and stop its further advance. People are misusing the wealth they have to fan the embers of ethno-religious conflicts, while millions of citizens are living below poverty line, eating one meal a day. It is very easy to blame every conflict on poverty, hunger and food shortages.

          Time has come for the international community to redraw the boundaries of some major countries before it is too late. The UN must not delay in using all their political wisdom and sagacity to forestall some armed conflicts, looming on the horizon on the West Coast of Africa.