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North Has No Agitation To Destroy Nigeria, Despite 20 Years Of Suffering– Arewa Forum
The Arewa Youth Consultative Discussion board, AYCF, has stated these agitating for Nigeria’s disintegration must be decisively handled.
Yerima Shettima, Nationwide President of the AYCF, made the comment in an interview with Each day Publish.
Shettima stated these whose agitations are endangering the lives of Nigerians must be handled in step with Buhari’s directive.
Faulting the violent method of IPOB, Shettima identified that the Motion for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, go about their agitation peacefully with out endangering the lives of Nigerians.
Shettima stated, “All of us are victims of the society right this moment in by hook or by crook, so if, one thing goes incorrect, you don’t need to behave irregular. Whenever you take a look at the state of affairs on floor and assume the one manner out is to turn into violent on the expense of individuals’s lives, then such agitation will not be value it.
“Sure, sure issues went incorrect and we additionally, in Northern a part of the nation have suffered the identical downside. Actually, we’ve got even suffered greater than the place the agitation is coming from.
“Can the state of affairs right this moment within the North-West or North-East be in comparison with the realities within the South-West and South-East? The reply isn’t any. For over twenty years now, we’ve got been affected by one bother to a different. From poverty to marginalisation to deprivation and so forth, even at that, we by no means deemed it essential to take up arms in opposition to the state; so, regardless of the way you take a look at it, their approaches are incorrect.
“Don’t we’ve got different teams agitating, like MASSOB? Do you see MASSOB endangering the lives of harmless residents of the Southeast? The reply isn’t any. Was it not from MASSOB IPOB broke out and is led by that blind man who places the lives of individuals at risk? MASSOB goes about their calls for that are very real by their considering and feeling.
“MASSOB has stated it actually believes that the Southeast is being marginalised and if Nigeria can handle a few of this injustice meted on them, they’re prepared to come back again and construct the nation. Nevertheless, the IPOB’s method is incorrect, and two wrongs can not make a proper.
“ this example, you may’t remedy issues with issues. We place confidence in the nation regardless of the shortcomings. We imagine some days we’ll flip issues round as an alternative of balkanising the nation within the identify of agitation. Most of these agitators are younger parts who ought to come collectively and construct a synergy inside themselves that will struggle in opposition to these oppressing them.
“Anyone discovered disobeying the legislation of the land must be handled decisively; no one is above the legislation. In the event you balkanise the nation, the place will you go to? You’ll be able to’t be an American citizen, you’ll nonetheless stay a Nigerian. In the event you balkanise right here, the place will you run to? You’re a refugee wherever you run to.
“We suffered in the course of the warfare and we will’t return there once more. If there’s a manner we will amend what occurred previously to make sure that the warfare by no means occurred, we’d have completed that.
“All people suffered for that, so is that the place they need us to return to now that there’s arms proliferation? We are able to’t survive a second warfare, so Nigerians should study to remain collectively. We are able to agitate with out endangering the lifetime of anyone.”
