Anyim Harps on Equity, Justice, Fairness for Social Cohesion

Former Senate President, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has identified equity, justice and fairness as the essential recipes to build a nation out of multi-ethnic nationalities, even as he called for deliberate planning and effort at all stages the national life of Nigeria. Anyim made this revelation yesterday as the guest speaker at the ‘International Research Conference On ‘50 Years Post

Nigerian Civil War: Issues, Challenges and Prospects Towards National Integration’, Justice, Peace and Security’, organised by Centre for Health, Allied Legal and Demographical Development Research and Training of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, Anambra State.

He said conflicts are “usually borne out of misunderstanding between or among communities or ethnic groups that hitherto came together to form a modern nation.”

According to the former lawmaker, “Research has shown that pre-modern nation differences will remain a trigger for conflicts except if the modern state is properly welded together by equity, fairness, justice and equality, and at times by human and economic developments.”