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Jos: Jasawa Blame Yourselves! By Yusuf Muhammad Inuwa
With heavy heart I write to comment on the absurdities being perpetrated in once the city of tourism and city of peace, Jos! Of recent this city has witnessed recurrent and unwarranted sectarian crisis unabated, yesterdays neighbours have turned to today assailants and the coexistence has now turn into enclaves. Elders either become powerless upon their youths or instigate them, how sad.
But why is this happening to this town that was once the most serene city in Nigeria? The answer dates back to historical antecedences that occurred and the subsequent manipulations of facts and documented historical evidences. First and foremost Plateau State is a State in Nigeria and as enshrine in the Constitution a Nigerian citizen can resides anywhere within the country and equally conduct his or her business without hindrances irrespective of his creed or ethnic affiliation. And because of the hospitable tolerance of others, we have what is called Sabon Gari across the Northern Cities of Nigeria and in some Southern States that is where what other intolerable hosts called Settlers dwell.
It is surprising to note that a State that pride itself as ‘Jalla Babbar Hausa’ could produce two non indigenes as Executive Governors and also other elective positions, while elsewhere the election of a Local government post was the remote cause of violence because a settler is on course to victory, which resulted into untold carnage and savagery, that is unthinkable in that place. It is a Hercules task to acquire a simple indigene certificate if your name does not sound Chinese in this fiefdom but in other places you are most welcome.
All over the world, old cities bear the names of its early settlers and equally the founders of those cities. But with this city on the rock reverse is the case, how could I become a settler in a place where my great grandfather was a co-founder of that community? Well the answer here lies with the victims, if the saying about an encounter with Uban ‘yan Boko about leadership tussle back then, which was sabotaged by a mole is true, and so who are we to blame?
Poverty and idleness is not an excuse because anybody who waste his entire life sloshed and left the economic income of the family to the female family members cannot blame others about his misfortune, how could you achieve something in life if you are not productive and equally envious of your hard working neighbour? What are you afraid of? How can you develop individually and collectively if all you do is always strategizing how to maim and kill your productive neighbour? The poverty elsewhere is hundred fold more than what you are experiencing yet the host there and the so-called settlers are in harmony. Life does not start and end in a rock cave! Anybody who wants to remain a local champion would always have a myopic idea about the outside world. The difference between animals and we human beings are sense of reasoning, thinking faculties and also the differentiation between good and bad.
The warring faction please cease fire and sheath you swords and listen to me attentively, have you noticed that this senseless atrocities is only and always perpetrated in your neighbourhood? Have you any idea this carnage only takes place at your locality? Have you ever ponder for once why this savagery is immune in places like the GRA? Well if not then you have to switch on your thinking faculties and sense of reasoning so as to differentiate between destroying your neighbourhood for the delight of your paymasters’ remote controlling your actions while milking your state dry. Plateau youths I want to address you, because you are the cannon fodder, remember ‘Divide and Rule’
Everybody is talking about the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to be brought to book, Iam sure we all miss the point because as far as there is envy, laziness and people always sloshed with drinks and blaming others on their misfortune couple with the backing of the state the end of this crisis is very far.
The irony of it all is that it is right for others to agitate for self determination elsewhere because they are being dominated by Na Tanko but he cannot even try to mutter such in another setting, how sad!
Yusuf Muhammad Inuwa Kaduna |