‘Massacres biggest challenge before Northern delegates’
Do the Northern elders even care about the North? What even make them elders when they cannot cause anything to happen or stop it from happening? As far as I am concerned, we do not have any elder any longer in the North. In my ignorance and over expectations, I thought in the event that the North runs into any problem such as the one we are facing, ‘ELDERS’ from the region can come out to courageously address it. Let us stop deceiving ourselves; the North has no elder given the fact that nobody plays the role of an elder. Let them finish the conference and carry their allowances for themselves and their families. Will it have any impact or direct bearing on the common man?
Samaila Rimaye sirimayeh@yahoo.com ***************************** The Minister of Defence, the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Inspector General of Police are all Northerners. They must put heads together and find lasting solutions to these killings of innocent people. History would not sphere them if they failed to do needful.
Abdul Musa amusatanko@yahoo.co.uk The North for all intents and purposes is a mere geographical expression since the elites of all hues are united in turn-by-turn chop-I-chop syndrome. After all, the principal security officers - NSA, Minister of Defence, IGP- are all from the same zone; yet Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna etc, are all locked down in this severe insecurity. Whose interest do they represent at the Rock?
Jan Hazo naiyamd@gmail.com ***************************** No country or region thrives without peace. Since the conference has become a matter of necessity, I agreed with the wise advice of the elders. Peace! Peace!! Peace!!! It is nothing but the ways to resolve these wanton killings; that should be the single agenda of the North at the talk show. If peace cannot be restored and guaranteed to the North, then the show has no value and doesn’t deserve our support and participation.
Haro, KANO haroismail@yahoo.com ***************************** We are happy that our respected northern elders view these problems the way we view and have said it all. We only pray that actions will follow. Otherwise,
as the respected Barr. Dalong shows, the calculation might be that we will be preoccupied by the struggle to save our lives in 2015 not who we shall field to contest for President and win election.
Mas’ud H. masudharuna@yahoo.com *****************************
Nigeria is at civil war and everyone should know that. People are killed in their hundreds on a daily bases, why? Is it that we don’t have leaders? We need answers now! Nigerian leaders are enticing external agents who continue to see Nigeria only within the prism of Christians and Muslims. I think, this is not who we are. We are all aware that the President himself, without anybody provoking him, said that there were Boko Haram members in his cabinet. Nobody has been tried; nobody has lost his job as a minister; so we don’t know. We cannot say we don’t know who they are.
If the President decided he wants to figure out how to resolve this matter, that is, if military solutions are known to have been exhausted, what the President should do is to probably set up a committee to look at this whole thing. Look, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa took about two years of people travelling around the world to figure out how to fix the situation. People went to the old Soviet Union. They went round before they came back. Therefore, insecurity matter is an issue you are going to resolve by diplomacy, negotiations, and consensus, trade up and so on and so forth. The military does not have the capacity to do that and the firepower that has intensified, has created a backlash.
Kangiwa
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