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General News of Thursday, 6 February 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

North has become a theatre of violence - Dogara

Yakubu Dogara Yakubu Dogara

Former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has said that Nigeria has become a theatre of violence.

Dogara stated this at a security meeting organized by the Arewa Research and Development Project, ARDP.

According to the former Speaker, the North has suffered from Boko Haram insurgents, ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen, kidnappers, bandits, cattle rustlers etc.

He said, “We are confronted with a crisis that is unparalleled in our history. The death spiral appears unstoppable. Increasingly, it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish us from our enemies.

“There was no shortage of early warning signs and as a matter of fact, our philosophers such as the late Sa’adu Zungur of blessed memory had warned that this dystopian era was fast approaching but we ignored all. We are now paying for our collective negligence.”

He continued: “As it is, we are now trapped in a prison of mirrors, where revealed lies are answered with new lies. With all these, its like our slow motion walk to self apocalypse is assured.”

He lamented that only Kwara and the FCT are peaceful out of the 19 Northern States.

“All the other 18 states are inflamed by one form of violence or the other. We are all guilty of waiting for the government to solve all the problems,” he lamented.

He also stated that the problem the nation is facing is due to the failure to provide leadership.

Making an observation, he said, “A peaceful and orderly Northern Nigeria then was more engaged in the pursuit of justice rather than pursuit for order. In tackling these problems, we must realise that guns do not kill and killing the violence does not necessarily bring peace except peace of the grave.

“Violence is taking roots because the leadership model has been exposed as a lie, an empty ideology used to promote greed instead of addressing social inequality and injustice.

“We are running out of time, it is crystal clear that the North cannot withstand the kind of contradictions that exist now. The North is on fire ignited by us either by our actions or by what we permit or allow.

“Those who truly love the North must now come out and accept responsibility and begin the salvage mission bearing in mind Professor Andrew Haruna’s warning ‘that the North was handed over to us in one peace, we must therefore not pass it to our children in pieces,” he advised.