by Nwanchor Festus
(Omege, Noyo in Ikwo LGA, of Ebonyi State)
The solutions to the problems in Nigeria are simple.
BY: NWANCHOR FESTUS ONYEKA
SEPARATE NIGERIA TODAY
Nigeria’s situation is utterly hopeless and it is only fools who refuse to see that the only solution to the problem is the division of the country. There will never come a time when it will get better. This conclusion is very easy to reach because the Islamic killers or Boko Haram jihadists are killing for religion. (They can always manifest with different names, Maitatsine or whatever other name but their operations and mission remain the same). For them they do not see anything morally wrong with the killings; it is the work of God they are doing. And since they see their actions as such then they will not stop because that will mean acting in disobedience to their God and religious teachings. The Nigerian Islamic killings are ideological killings and Igbo or Biafrans must stay away in their own sovereign independent state or they will continue to get killed by the Islamic Nigerian state.
BREAKDOWN OF LAW AND ORDER
In Nigeria the government is incapable of securing the lives and properties of those within its borders. The state cannot guarantee the protection of the people within its jurisdiction. In a legitimate and just state or society, because there is supposed to be an equitable justice system the native people depend on it to protect their rights and interests. In such social justice systems there are built in checks and balances that check the excesses of the privileged and powerful among them. In all decent human societies it is the state or the collective that must have monopoly of the instrument of violence. It should also be the prerogative of the state to establish institutions and just systems for the arbitration and dispensing of justice in matters of dispute between society members. And after fair hearings it must be the preserve of the state to determine the right kind of punishment due the adjudged offender and fair reward to the victim of the offense. It is based on this principle that all societies survive and thrive. But the extant Nigerian state is completely bereft of any of these basic principles on which a state must exist. Therefore, it goes without saying that the only option there is to solve Nigeria’s problem is the dissolution of the endemically dysfunctional union.
INADEQUATE JUSTICE SYSTEM
In Nigeria it is not only that the government does not have the sole control of the instrument of violence to peoples’ lives and properties, the legal institution of the country is a complete sham and no sensible people can stake their lives and existence in such. For nearly five decades the peoples within its borders especially the Igbo/Biafra ethnic peoples have been left to provide security to their lives and properties. This, of course as expected, is always grossly inadequate because they, as private citizens, cannot muster the size of equipment and sophistication needed to counter the threats and attacks they face in Nigeria on a daily basis. So given just this singular reason the basis for allegiance and the surrender of individual’s and community’s sovereignty is not there. It is therefore logical to insist on the fact that Igbo/Biafra peoples will not for any reason remain members of such a society where the justice system has been so diminished and bastardized and where their lives and properties are mere cannon fodders that continually fuel the terrible fire of Islamic intolerance, fear and hatred. The Igbo/Biafrans would rather belong to a society where they will collectively establish a criminal justice system that works and is capable of dispensing justice and fairness to the weak and the strong, the rich and the poor and all people of every station in life not minding their religious faith or political opinions. Partitioning the Nigerian union along the already existing cultural/religious divides will solve this problem.
INTOLERANCE
Human beings are basically social beings. What that means is that humans can only live in societies of other human beings. But there is the natural tendency in human beings to hold opinions and perspectives that contrast with those of their neighbor’s which invariably lead to tensions and conflicts among the human members of a society. It then becomes a matter of priority, if they expect to live together successfully, that they must find ways to resolve conflicts and frictions resulting from their social relationships without resorting to
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